"The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox."

-- Kedar Joshi

#World Quotes #Paradox Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.65, Granta Books
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”
“I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.”
“The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid to grow up. So afraid to involve myself in relationships where I might be expected to give the same love I got - instead of sixth-grade shenanigans. I bored myself with all the when I grow up nonsense, but I was worried it would never happen even as I longed for it.”
“Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.”
“Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.”
“There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.”
“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

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