"We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Trust Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.”
“I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.”
“Sometimes people will request a song I haven't played in a while and I'll play it and singing the lyrics will mean something different to me as a 35 year-old person than they did when I was 25. I know I'm still that person who wrote it and thought I knew what I meant when I was writing them. They meant something very exact to me in that time of my life. But it's really cool when those same lyrics can transform into something else and mean something entirely different to me.”

Source : Source: sojo.net
“Even if you forget thatÂ´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you canÂ´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.”
“Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.”
“I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of”
“I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.”

Source : FaceBook post by Etta James from Jun 16, 2012
“The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.”

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