"Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In my case, I like to support causes where "a lot of good comes from a little bit of good," or, in other words, where the positive social returns vastly exceed the amount of time and money invested."

-- Jeffrey Skoll

#Believe Quotes #Differences Quotes #Support Quotes

“Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.”
“I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.”
“The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.”
“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.”
“I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of lifeâ€¦ You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?”

Source : "Laura Marling: 'Americans - they're just a lot more poetic'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.
“On the other side of pain, there is still love.”
“Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.”

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