"No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in oneâ€™s own culture but within oneself."

-- Barry Lopez

#Blood Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Growth Quotes

“I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“My conception around being a woman in 2016 has definitely been shifting over the past year, because I feel like I'm proud of womanhood, and I feel attached to it, and at the same time I'm someone who doesn't believe in having a gender binary, and so often times I separate those two concepts in my mind - the concept of being a woman and the concept of being a girl or being female, being kind of attached to a certain gender identity.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.”
“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

Source : "Fictional character: Senior Ed Bloom". "Big Fish", www.imdb.com. December 4, 2003.
“I get such joy from singing- it's good for the soul.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the world was precarious and dangerous, and music supplied those moments of real peace and safety.”
“We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's really just an extension of that habit which is trying to tell the reader what the movie will look like. Ultimately that is the job of a screenwriter to a certain extent.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.”

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