"My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out.""

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Denise Duhamel

#Self Quotes #Advice Quotes #Chill Quotes

“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. Itâ€™s a sort of crime against childhood.”
“I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I've always wanted my life and my work to be something that was letting my soul participate with the souls of others. I have really felt that process (with) this picture.”

Source : "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
“Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins...”

Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press
“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.”

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