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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ↗

— Jean Paul

#charm #give #gives #life #moderation

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. ↗

— Jean Paul

#brutal #crushed #ere #fall #flowers

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. ↗

— Jean Paul

#know #mourner #none #sorrow #which

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cannot #character #clearness #discover #easily

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cowardly #danger #dangers #first #men

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. ↗

— Gary Ross

#beyond #directors #empowered #ever #experience

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#goes #live #nation #which #whole

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#both #children #each #family #joyful

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#aggressiveness #already #challenge #different #dominion