"It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Kindness Quotes #Heart Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.”
“[Lloyd George] said that Harding 's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.”
“I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.”
“The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed”
“I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.”
“Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”
“If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.”

Source : "Herta Müller: a life in books". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.
“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how sheâ€™s treated.”

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