"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."

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John Seely Brown

#Letting Go Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Gold Quotes

“On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.”
“I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.”
“The truth is I couldn’t care less about needing a supposed 'thigh gap.' It’s just another tool of manipulation that other people are trying to use to keep me from loving my body. Why would I want to starve and weaken my natural body size? I’m not saying women who have it naturally are unattractive. But I would have to change my entire frame just to achieve something that seems so trivial.”

Source : "Why The Dangerous ‘Thigh Gap’ Trend Makes Me Mad" by Robyn Lawley, www.thedailybeast.com. October 28, 2013.
“If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.”
“Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.”
“It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8)”
“I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.”
“Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.”

Source : William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.78

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