"All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Doors Quotes #Self Quotes #Giving Quotes

“If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.”
“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.”
“The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”
“I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.”
“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.”
“A beautifully-designed coat that drapes magnificently on the female form.”
“Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 20, 2014
“A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.”

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