"Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength"

-- Dalai Lama

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“I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.”
“The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.”

Source : Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.58, Greenleaf Book Group
“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”
“And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.”
“Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.”
“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”
“Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.”
“After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.”

Source : "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

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