"Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!"

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Source : "I'd be a Butterfly". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#Misery Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a certain event. And so that's why I go, "Wow. That's what acting really is. You find out the background, you get the joy of creating a fictional history of a fictional character and you get to tell a story." So I felt that acting is making history come alive and it became my mode of trying to figure out what this craft of acting is really all about.”
“The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.”
“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.”
“Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.”
“If it isn't a clear yes, then it's a clear no.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 17, 2014.
“Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.166, Macmillan
“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

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