"The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody."

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Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1868). “Manners”, p.147

Sarah Josepha Hale

#Mind Quotes #Guests Quotes #Suggestions Quotes

“Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.”
“The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.”
“A good designer will actually design the company.”
“I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want”
“He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.”
“When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.”
“My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting differenceâ€™s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations â€“ there is no dictionary meaningâ€¦ they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.”
“I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.”

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