"I still donâ€™t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it."

-- David Levithan

#Quality Quotes #Able Quotes #Steps Quotes

“People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?”
“I'm better looking in person.”
“Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies.”
“The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.”

Source : Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.372, Harper Collins
“A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.”
“When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to "look normal."”
“Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs.”
“I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.”

Source : "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.

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