"The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this."

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Source : James Howe (1997). “The Watcher”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

James Howe

#Beautiful Quotes #Broken Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I like to say I'm geek-chic with a little bit of showgirl.I get asked it a lot, and it really does kind of sum it up.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Everything seems simpler from a distance.”

Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.379, Macmillan
“The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.”

Source : "Exclusive On-Set Interview With Chris Hemsworth!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. February 9, 2012.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”
“To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.”
“If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for by raising your taxes and providing the requirements on individuals where they have the ability to pay, such as we determine as appropriate, then the insurance issue doesn't come up.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.”
“A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.”

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