"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."

-- Isabelle Eberhardt

#Character Quotes #Past Quotes #Leaving The Past Quotes

“Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.”
“The goal is that people will find something of themselves in it. But you don't need to know what a hexachord is! You don't need to know what serialism is. You don't need to know anything technical. It's more about the state of mind of being open and listening to what's really going on. And I think that the more open you can be, the better. So maybe it's not good to have expectations.”
“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”
“The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]”
“I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.”
“I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the worldâ€¦”
“A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.”

Source : Marie Winn (1978). “Plug in Drug”, Bantam Books

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