"Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace."

-- Ariwara no Narihira

#Heart Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes

“Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.”
“I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.”
“I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.”
“Creativity and love come from the same source.”
“To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.”
“Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.”
“Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.”

Source : "Rupert Murdoch: Will this prove to be the media king's last act?" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2017.
“One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.”

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