"I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable."

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Source : Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

Merrill Markoe

#Creative Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.”
“I don't get mad too much.”
“Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.”

Source : John D. Caputo (2014). “How To Read Kierkegaard”, p.14, Granta Books
“The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.”
“Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf”
“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.”
“The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.”
“The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying that the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the rosary is beyond description.”

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