"How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!"

-- Douglas Harding

#Bears Quotes #Splendor Quotes #Spirituality Quotes

“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”
“Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.”

Source : CNN interview, quoting in "Taliban-U.S. Talks ‘Very Preliminary,’ Defense Chief Says" by Catherine Larkin, www.bloomberg.com. June 19, 2011.
“It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.”
“I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary”
“Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it.”
“Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.”

Source : "Plus-Size Model Candice Huffine Has Launched Her Own Collection and It's Fabulous". Interview with Lauren Chan, www.glamour.com. May 6, 2015.
“I suffer from life and from other people. I canâ€™t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful â€” only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

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