"I believe in listening to what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it."

-- Anne Lamott

#Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.”
“Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!”
“For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.”

Source : "Artist Shahzia Sikander on how she draws" by Shahzia Sikander, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.
“...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.”

Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage
“Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.”
“I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.”

Source : "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.
“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

Source : Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.44, Souvenir Press
“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..”

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