"I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

#Crush Quotes #Children Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.”
“For movies, you need to come up with a movie that is only possible to screen in the theater, which legitimizes the way you watch them. You buy your ticket so you need to get something in exchange for that. It should be a spectacle.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
“This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.”
“I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.”
“It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.”

Source : " Mary J.Blige Says She's 'Just Fine' With Her New Album, Losing 'Umbrella' to Rihanna" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. October 10, 2007.
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.”

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