"It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart."

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Source : Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.20, Penguin

Matthew Polly

#Heart Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.”
“There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]”
“I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.”
“If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.”
“Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.”
“All's well if all ends well.”
“Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I gotta go between Undertaker and Triple H. Other than all the obvious reasons, but the biggest one for me, those are the only two guys, I could make a mistake and it would be okay. I could put the trust of the match, the story, and absolutely everything into their hands and let go of my control. I'm a control freak (laughs). Those are the only two guys I can let drive and take my hands off the steering wheel.”
“There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.”

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