"You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away."

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Source : Brad Warner (2009). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.71, New World Library

Brad Warner

#Running Quotes #Running Away Quotes #Situation Quotes

“You can't have everything, even in California”
“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”
“To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.”
“I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.”
“I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.”
“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.”
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

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