"My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy."

-- George Eliot

#Compassion Quotes #Joy Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasnâ€™t paying attention,”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.60, Penguin
“Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.”
“The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.”
“I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not.”
“I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”
“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”

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