"I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude."

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Source : Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com

Heloise

#Gratitude Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.”

Source : "THE LEADING MEN: Arcelus and Morrison". Interview with Tom Nondorf, www.playbill.com. May 01, 2007.
“I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.”

Source : William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin
“Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.”
“the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.”
“Beware the ire of the calm.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2015). “The Abbess of Crewe”, p.22, Canongate Books
“My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.”

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