"The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?"

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Cornelia Funke

#Song Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Flower Quotes

“No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aÃ«rial power for him who is able to respire it.”
“Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.”

Source : "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.
“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent”
“A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.”
“I keep it wrapped until i meet the right one 'Cause I ain't Mumford, I ain't trying to have sons”
“Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jul 26, 2016
“Science is the storytelling of our time.”
“Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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