"Very often we donâ€™t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isnâ€™t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become."

-- Esther Perel

#Self Quotes #Want Quotes #Elsewhere Quotes

“The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.”
“Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]”
“I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade it for anything. The artist should be the person representing their brand because theyre the best person to do so.”
“I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.”
“The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.”
“It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; itâ€™s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, â€˜live always at the â€˜edge of mysteryâ€™Ââ€”the boundary of the unknown.â€™ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.8, Penguin
“Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.”
“Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.”

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