"It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability."

-- Maud Younger

#Doubt Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Pleasant Quotes

“Every little moment has a meaning all its own.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.46, Vintage
“Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.”
“Canada was founded by two nations: the English and the French. But what about the Mi'kmaq, who opened their doors, who shared their food, their knowledge? What about the military alliances our people formed with European settlers? We are allies of the Crown.”
“We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.”

Source : John R. Claypool (2004). “Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief”, p.12, Church Publishing, Inc.
“I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.”
“I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”
“Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesnâ€™t work, throw it away.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.133

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