"There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Pain Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”
“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.”
“A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.”

Source : John Berridge (1838). “The works of ... John Berridge, with an enlarged memoir of his life [ed.] by R. Whittingham”, p.396
“You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.”
“I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.”
“I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying, not trying to be something you're not.”
“There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.”

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