"There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think."

-- Regina Brett

#Inspiration Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.”

Source : "Dynasty calls". www.economist.com. May 08, 2008.
“The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.”
“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”
“If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.”

Source : "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.
“It starts at midnight.”
“Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.”
“People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.”
“Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2000). “Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999”, Counterpoint Press

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