"Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary."

-- Mary Pipher

#Opportunity Quotes #Joy Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.”
“I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.”
“A Fighter gets up... No matter what.”

Source : FaceBook post by Cara Castronuova from Mar 22, 2011
“Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.”
“On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.”
“There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.”
“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.384, Random House
“I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.”

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