"Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well."

-- Mata Amritanandamayi

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“One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (1870). “Stories and Tales”, p.485
“The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.”
“It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.”
“What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.”
“The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.”

Source : "Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns of 'two-tier' force" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.
“A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.”
“I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.”

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