quotes about Self-denial

“Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again.”

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

“My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.”

“This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.”

“I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.”

“As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.”

“There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.”

Source : "Fictional character: Zhuge Liang". Video Game "Dynasty Warriors 8", February 28, 2013.

“I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.”