"Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Spring Quotes #Heart Quotes #Roots Quotes

“When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.”
“If thereâ€™s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”
“How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates (2007). “The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982”, Ecco
“I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. Thereâ€™s a whole new world in books. If you canâ€™t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.”
“I was never hurt by what anybody said about my clothes,Â because IÂ dress to please myself. If somebody doesnâ€™t like what Iâ€™m wearing, itâ€™s their problem, not mine”
“Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly”
“You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.”

Source : "Zachary Quinto Addresses Homosexuality in New Interview, Blog Post" by Jane Kellogg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 16, 2011.

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