"We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isnâ€™t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love."

-- Steve Almond

#Wise Quotes #True Friend Quotes #Life Is Short Quotes

“I've got to give my brother a lot of credit because he's always introduced me to a lot of things and those films spiked an interest of, "Wow, this is an incredible world, how do you be a part of that?" That definitely helped me through my school years of doing theater.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.”
“When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That's what gave me the courage.”
“If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.”

Source : "Nazi era French Resistance leader dies" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

Source : Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”
“I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.”
“What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.”

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