"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Wedding Quotes #Song Quotes #Happy Marriage Quotes

“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”

Source : "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".
“Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.”
“Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.”

Source : "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Sep 23, 2016
“Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.”

Source : Lewis Wolpert (1998). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.72, Harvard University Press
“Broke is temporary, poor is eternal.”
“It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.”

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