"I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Jemima Kirke

#Pride Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.”
“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art...”
“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”
“Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naÃ¯ve and simpleâ€¦when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides usâ€¦”
“It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.”
“That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.”

Source : c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.13.
“Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.”
“Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say itâ€™s impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you can create your ideal life. Your heartâ€™s desires can become reality. Make things better now by taking steps every day to get closer to the life you want. And never, ever give up.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.128, Penguin

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