"He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!"

-- Christopher Paolini

#Battle Quotes #Reeds Quotes #Triumphant Quotes

“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

Source : "Stephen Fry reveals new BBC TV series" by Tim Lusher, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.
“Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that”
“When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
“There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.”
“Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.”
“I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.”
“It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.”

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