"Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles."

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Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

Elizabeth Aston

#Mind Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Remedy Quotes

“Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.”
“While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.”
“If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.”
“When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.”
“VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.”
“I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.”
“Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive seasons of your life. Cherish your agency, and donâ€™t give it away casually. Donâ€™t compare yourself to others â€” nearly always this will make you despondent. Donâ€™t accept somebody elseâ€™s interpretation of how you should be spending your time. Make the best decision you can and then evaluate it to see how it works.”

Source : Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company
“I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an adoring audience that's aging as well, and the plain truth is that I wasn't condemned by that because I've never had to be somebody to do something. I don't have a five year-plan. I just hope the phone will ring and it will bring an opportunity to dominate my life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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