"Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein."

-- Andre Maurois

#Love Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.”

Source : Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.34, Thomas Nelson
“My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best”
“I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: "Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience."”
“Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.”
“A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.”

Source : "The New Face of Chess Is a Pretty One". Interview with Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2002.
“To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak”
“A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.”

Source : "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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