"Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?"

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Happiness Quotes #Self Quotes #Substance Quotes

“True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.”
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.”
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”

Source : George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
“I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.”
“I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.”
“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”

Source : "Before I Fall: The official film tie-in that will take your breath away". Book by Lauren Oliver, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.
“Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.”
“Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.”

Source : Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2011.

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