"The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses."

-- Erica Jong

#Inspirational Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes

“I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.”

Source : "Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.
“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”

Source : Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.”
“I've been the oldest child since before you were born”
“What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.”

Source : Swami Rama (2002). “Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully”, p.34, Lotus Press
“Small is good, but none is better.”
“He hurts me most who lavishly commends.”
“Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name”

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