"in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naÃ¯ve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find."

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Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#Confidence Quotes #World Quotes #Curious Quotes

“Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.”
“It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”
“I was taught to be anti-Jewish.”
“In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being”
“The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed. The body doesn't care if we're right or wrong. Even in those times when we feel perfectly justified in getting angry - when we tell ourselves it's the healthy response - we pay for it just the same”
“A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.”

Source : "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.
“Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.”

Source : Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 14, 2006.
“No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.”

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