"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Sad Quotes #Live Life Quotes #Silence Quotes

“It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.”
“You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!”
“None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.”
“Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
“Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.”
“Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.”
“I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.”
“Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.”

Source : Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)

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