"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it."

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Marcus Aurelius

#Judgment Quotes

“The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.”
“I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.”
“I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashesâ€¦. I burnt my fingers.”

Source : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press
“When I graduated from high school, this is in Los Angeles, I was very interested in taking a trip to Mexico to see the archeological sites. So three other people and myself drove down there.”
“What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.”
“Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.”
“I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.”

Source : Interview with James Mottram, www.independent.co.uk. June 5, 2010.

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