"The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true."

-- Dan Chaon

#Mirrors Quotes #Giving Quotes #Community Quotes

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.199, Random House
“On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."”
“Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?”
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
“Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.”
“If you donâ€™t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian languageâ€¦ you canâ€™t chant well. You cannotâ€¦ receive the images of poetry paints for you. Itâ€™s like having peas and no pod.”
“When I'm working on something and I get to the point where I feel it getting interesting, that's my reward.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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