quotes about Wedding Reception

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

Source : Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

“A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.”

“If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.”

“You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.”

“You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.”

“Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.”

“I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.”

“...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.”

“He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.”

“Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.”

Source : Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield, Meredith Maran (1998). “Ben Jerry's Double Dip: How to Run a Values Led Business and Make Money Too”, p.20, Simon and Schuster