"If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other."

-- Nora Ephron

#Believe Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Iâ€™ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.”
“I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.”
“As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.”
“In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.”
“We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.”
“In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential”
“O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.”
“It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.”

Source : Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.18

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