"There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others."

-- Nelson Mandela

#True Friend Quotes #People Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
“Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.”
“I draw whatever hits me.”
“A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)”
“You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.”
“You can't test courage cautiously.”

Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books
“We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are.”

Source : Louise (Dickinson) Rich (1971). “The peninsula”
“Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.”

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