"For me, I enjoy intimidating people and I enjoy being intimidated. It is exciting. It's cool to have an experience with someone where you challenge them, and they are afraid, and then they love you and they've grown. When that happens to me, I feel so blessed if somebody has opened my world up a little bit more."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Blessed Quotes #Love You Quotes #People Quotes

“I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.”

Source : "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.
“Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.”
“Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Sep 04, 2013
“As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.”
“It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.”
“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
“Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.
“Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.”

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