"Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint."

-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Believe Quotes #Saint Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.”

Source : Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press
“The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.”
“Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.”
“We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.”

Source : Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”
“I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.”
“In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be.”
“My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.”

Source : "Q&A: Anna Kendrick on modeling, movies and music". Interview with Nicole Evatt, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 24, 2014.
“They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.”

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