"Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from."

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Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group

Jen Hatmaker

#Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes #Break Quotes

“Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5. Good design is unobtrusive 6. Good design is honest 7. Good design is long-lasting 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail 9. Good design is environmentally friendly 10. Good design is as little design as possible”
“Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”
“Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.”

Source : "The web of belief". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1970.
“Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full”

Source : Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.23, Penguin
“Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the dark place. Our humiliations and secret fears and deepest anxieties, those times where we were at our worst: that's the best material.”
“The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.”
“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.”
“Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.”

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