"I will live to make myself not feared."

-- Catherine the Great

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
“Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.”

Source : Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.89, Faber & Faber
“That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.”
“I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2004.
“One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.”
“Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.”

Source : "A Patchwork Sampler". Book by Marjorie Anderson, December 2010.
“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”
“Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.”

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