"Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do."

-- George Eliot

#Giving Up Quotes #Fate Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.”
“The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else...”
“Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.”
“The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.”

Source : George C. Williams (2014). “The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues To Plan And Purpose In Nature”, p.160, Basic Books
“A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.”
“Hail the day that sees Him rise, Ravished from our wistful eyes! Christ, awhile to mortals given, Re-ascends His native heaven. There the glorious triumph waits, Lift your heads, eternal gates! Wide unfold the radiant scene, Take the King of glory in!”
“The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.”
“I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.”

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