"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

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Democritus

#Pain Quotes #Wind Quotes #Moderation Quotes

“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.”
“It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.”
“As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.”
“Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.”
“Helena (Bonham Carter) is one of the coolest kindest women I've ever met. We had so much fun. She has the best sense of humor. I loved her fairy godmother. It came at a point during night shoots where I was exhausted. It was trippy, weird and cold ... and then Helena showed up. It was like this bright light on the horizon; it was wonderful.”
“I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.”
“While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.”

Source : "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.”

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