"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love."

-- Rumi

#Taken Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Half Quotes

“Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.”
“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan
“I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.”
“I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.”
“It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'”
“If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.”
“I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and learn different concertos, but then I started rounding out my collection. My dad was a big jazz fan, so I just started hearing a lot more soul music. I loved Little Stevie Wonder, and I got really into him as a singer and a writer as I got older.”
“And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.”

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