"Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live."

-- Joseph Epstein

#Inspirational Quotes #Realms Quotes

“All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.”

Source : Ted Schwarz, Arnold Friberg (1985). “Arnold Friberg: the passion of a modern master”
“Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.”
“There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.”
“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.”
“Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.”
“Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.”
“I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.”

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