"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Giving Up Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose....”
“Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!”
“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

Source : "‘Fake Boyfriends’: Why Our Friends Are Our Most Meaningful Relationships" by Nico Lang, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.
“My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!”

Source : "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.
“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.151, Penguin
“First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.”

Source : Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper (1915). “The aeroplane”
“It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.”

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