"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

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Source : Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

Erica Jong

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Hey ma, your bad boy did good!”
“We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013
“The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.”
“American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.”
“I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people.”

Source : "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.
“No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.”
“I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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