"A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I truly believe that [America loves] the people that don't play to the audience and are just themselves.”

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“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
“More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.”
“Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.”
“When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.”

Source : Source: bknation.org
“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company
“The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.”

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