"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Happiness Quotes #Depression Quotes #Faith Quotes

“But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.”
“The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.”

Source : Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.157, Northwestern University Press
“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.”

Source : Nikolai Bukharin (2005). “How It All Began: The Prison Novel”, p.110, Columbia University Press
“I wished that, for once, faery tales â€“ real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales â€“ would have a happy ending.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.41, Harlequin
“I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.”
“If you canâ€™t decide what to do, get on the road. You wonâ€™t find the answer. It will find you.”
“The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.”

Source : "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.
“Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.”

Source : Tony Hendra (1987). “Going Too Far”, Dolphin Books

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