"In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way."

-- Matthew Perry

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“On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.54, BoD – Books on Demand
“Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.”
“Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”

Source : "A New Slant on Life". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1965.
“Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.”
“I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.”
“I think drawing is really the basis of all art, even sculpture, film. The greatest filmmakers have always been able to at least roughly sketch out their ideas in storyboards. And black and white in particular is a good place to start.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

Source : "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life". Book by B. Alan Wallace, 1993.
“We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.”

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