"Nowadays everyone is trying to live up to the expectations of their surroundings, especially in the industry they work for, and I think that we forget that we also can decide and just say, I'm ending it because I want to."

-- Vicky Krieps

#Thinking Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.”
“You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.”

Source : Sarah Kay (2016). “The Type”, p.13, Hachette UK
“To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.”
“Art is like ham-it nourishes people.”
“Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.”
“The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.”
“If you observe well, your own heart will answer.”

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