"Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other."

-- Judy Collins

#Forgiving Quotes #Experience Quotes #Teach Quotes

“What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.306, University of Chicago Press
“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
“The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.”
“Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.”
“I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.”
“I think in Pakistan there is already democracy and no dictatorship. And recently a few years ago, the Pakistani people stood against the dictatorship of [Pervez] Musharraf and compelled him to resign. So now it is the people's democracy so I don't think any chance that the people should stand against this administration. Pakistan's situation is different than Egypt. They cannot be compared.”
“Every one of my fans is so special to me”
“Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.”

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