"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

-- Sarah Bernhardt

#Art Quotes #What Matters Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.”
“I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.”
“Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks”
“It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.”

Source : Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz
“I am a human being. I am not an actor.”
“Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.”
“A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from Dec 28, 2013
“So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!”

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