"I want to make my own life a masterpiece."

-- Benito Mussolini

#Want Quotes #Masterpiece Quotes

“Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.”
“That sense â€“ the only true patriotism â€“ comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature â€˜libertyâ€™ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.”
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.79, Penguin
“I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.”
“You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?”

Source : Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus”, p.13, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.”

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