"The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world."

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Etty Hillesum

“You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”
“It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.”
“We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I would probably keep it old school with The Isley Brothers. Their music relaxes me and I can listen to it all day.”
“I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.”
“You can't get better at things you never play.”
“I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.”
“You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.”

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