"Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power."

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Source : George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223

George Stillman Hillard

#Dignity Quotes #Misfortunes Quotes

“Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.”
“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”
“As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.”
“Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is of no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, the poor, the sick, in children.”
“In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.”
“As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life...”

Source : Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.142, Profile Books
“I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.”

Source : "Biggest Loser Gains Two New Trainers" by Josh Grossberg, www.eonline.com. January 19, 2011.

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