"The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell."

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Source : Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

Walt Whitman

#Beautiful Quotes #Nature Quotes #Rude Quotes

“Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.”
“The essence of the cinema that I'm interested in is a combination of love, rage, and curiosity. Sometimes it's hard to see those intentions, or maybe it's hard to portray them on film in a way that doesn't sound too preachy or irrelevant. So instead of saying it out loud, you say it multiple times in the movie by hiding it. You get a sensation after you see the whole film throughout yourself.”
“The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.”

Source : Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio RamÃ³n Ribeyro used to say a mature novel demands the author's death, not literal death but metaphoric death, which is the author has to truly erase himself. Therefore, to be truly free, you have to break free from internal and external pressures, to erase the self completely and become a sort of medium, let the story pass through yourself and let the story dance with you.”
“The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.”
“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”

Source : Raymond E. Feist (1993). “Silverthorn”, Spectra
“It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done”
“You are a unique person, just like everybody else!!”

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