"And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive."

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Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.82, Delacorte Press

Mary Balogh

#Breathing Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”
“The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; ''tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone'; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.”

Source : "Man in the Modern Age". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1933.
“Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant.”
“I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made me focus in on the actors a lot more. I didn't have the distraction of looking at my surroundings.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Only if a child feels right can he think right.”
“Time for some thrillin' heroics.”
“The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.”
“I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.”

Source : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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