"albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one."

-- Natalie Clifford Barney

#Eye Quotes #Hair Quotes #Vices Quotes

“I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.”

Source : "Jonathan Ames Talks HBO’s “Bored To Death,” Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon". Interview with David Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.
“I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.”

Source : "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Disc Dish Interview, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.
“When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.”
“My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.”

Source : Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”
“Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.”

Source : "One on One with Jacques Plante". Legends of Hockey.net, May 24, 2005.
“...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.”
“Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.”

Source : Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.”

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