Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
Judy GarlandRead
The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
Interpretation
True wealth is not material but rather the love and connections we hold in our hearts.
This quote emphasizes that the most valuable aspects of life, such as love, empathy, and genuine relationships, cannot be seen or measured in physical terms. Instead, they are felt deeply and are essential for a fulfilling life, suggesting that emotional and spiritual treasures far surpass material possessions.
In practice
During a wedding speech, one could reflect on the invisible treasures of love shared between partners.
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.
I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.
Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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