"The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Struggle Quotes #Self Quotes #Deception Quotes

“It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.”
“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.”

Source : Julian of Norwich (1985). “Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich”, Templegate Pub
“I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.”
“I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.”
“Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.”
“Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.”
“I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.”
“The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.”

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