"Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world."

-- Joseph Campbell

#Inspirational Quotes #Heart Quotes #Trying Quotes

“A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.”
“I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”
“Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath.Â The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until you finally gasp for air â€“ taking in more than ever to overcome the short-term deficit you induced.”

Source : Matt Stone (2014). “Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food”, p.19, Matt Stone
“What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!”
“I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.”

Source : Agnès Varda, T. Jefferson Kline (2013). “Agnès Varda: Interviews”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”
“The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of responsibility; it had liberated people from the chimera of conscience.”

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