"Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart."

-- William Wilberforce

#Heart Quotes #Suffering Quotes #My Heart Quotes

“The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.”

Source : Leonard Peikoff (1993). “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”, p.116, Penguin
“I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.”

Source : Harry Stack Sullivan (1965). “The interpersonal theory of psychiatry”
“Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.”
“I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.”
“I've got Ph.D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to do. Like it seems self-evident that I'm a musician now, but it's a really hard path. It's almost impossible.”
“The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.”
“My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.413, Rowman & Littlefield
“So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.”

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