"There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection."

-- Rumi

#Perfection Quotes #Soul Quotes #Proud Quotes

“We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.”
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”

Source : "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower". Book by William Blum, 2000.
“I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years. The prostitutes and their world have been the main subjects of my photographs.”
“I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.”
“The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.”
“War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist”
“It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!”
“When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ***** I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.”

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