"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

-- Anatole France

#Literature Quotes #Innocence Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.”
“It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.”
“The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.”
“Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?”
“Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.”
“Patience has all the time it needs.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.116, Penguin
“Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.”

Source : P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

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