"..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary."

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Source : Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.175, Random House

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Mistake Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.”
“In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.”
“Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?”
“We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.”

Source : "The Living Torch, A.E". Book by Monk Gibbon, 1937.
“I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.”
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
“Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.”
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

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