"In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin"

-- Agnes Repplier

#Stress Quotes #Fall Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I am the only real truth I know.”

Source : Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). “Women Fiction 2”
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
“I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.”
“The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.”

Source : Details magazine, 2010.
“Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.”
“I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.”
“My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.”

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