"The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things."

-- Thomas S. Monson

#People Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.”
“The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.”
“Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.”
“[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.”
“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.”
“Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.”

Source : "Tom Hardy Talks Grown-Up Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 19, 2012.
“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.193, Faber & Faber
“When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ...”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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