"When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street."

-- Jo Nesbo

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.”

Source : George Herbert Palmer (2006). “The Nature of Goodness”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.
“I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand. We educate our patients and their friends to believe that every or almost every symptom and disease can be benefited by a drug.”
“I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.”
“My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricityâ€”it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.”
“I have a massive guilt thing about money.”
“I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.”
“At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!”
“There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.”

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