"The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be."

-- Oliver Burkeman

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“Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.”

Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org
“No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.”
“Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.62, Penguin
“The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press
“The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.”
“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”
“I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.”

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