"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Hero Quotes #Scary Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!”
“At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.”
“I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.”

Source : Bai Juyi, “The Chrysanthemums In The Eastern Garden”
“Practice makes polish and polish makes money.”
“In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?”
“Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.”

Source : "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Sout, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2014.
“Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).”
“In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”

Source : Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.67, Tuttle Publishing

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