"The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others."

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Source : Joy Fielding (2012). “Still Life: Caught in a nightmare between life and death ...”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

Joy Fielding

#Giving Up Quotes #Trying Quotes #Guarantees Quotes

“Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this. Hatsuharu Sohma: Just don't get arrested, okay?”
“Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel (which would be analogous to total CO2) but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.”
“I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.105, Algonquin Books
“Apply true focus to what you do best.”
“To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.”

Source : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One”, p.552, e-artnow
“If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.”
“Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.”
“Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force.”

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