"If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone."

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Source : Ernesto Sirolli (1999). “Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies”, p.126, New Society Publishers

Ernesto Sirolli

#People Quotes #Want Quotes

“To be truly elegant one should not be noticed”
“When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.”
“I love sunglasses, I have all shapes and colors.”

Source : "Model Minute: Alessandra Ambrosio Loves Melissa's Shoes". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.
“Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.”
“I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.”
“One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.'”
“Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.”
“...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever growing horror,--a detestation which had reacted strongly on his literary and artistic tastes; he refused, as far as possible, to have anything to do with pictures and books whose subjects were in any way connected with modern existence.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2006). “Against the Grain: Easyread Large Edition”, p.361, ReadHowYouWant.com

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