"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Past Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.”
“Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”
“I basically have two ways I start writing. Either I'll start with something about myself, or something that happened to me that seemed important, or I'll start with some idea I have that doesn't have much to do with me. But one will always lead to the other.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.”

Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (1997). “The Deep End of the Ocean”, p.90, Penguin
“Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.”
“To talk about something like prostitution, the other person then becomes the wild card that will have a response, and it may not be the response you want. Sometimes I think saying it would be selfish to tell them is still being under the illusion that you have all the power. You say it would be selfish to tell them, when in fact you're scared that in telling them, it gives them the power to do what they might want to do because once they know, they become somebody who could be reactive.”
“Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.”

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