"The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Heart Quotes #Shy Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for goldâ€”where we trip is where the treasure lies.”

Source : Calvin Miller (2011). “Letters to a Young Pastor”, p.12, David C Cook
“Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your mind's been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.”

Source : James Hillman, Michael Ventura (1992). “We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse”, Harpercollins
“Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.”
“The way that I write songs is pretty simple. I hear music first, much like you would when you're scoring a film. I usually hear a soundtrack in my head, and after I get that soundtrack, it tells me what it's about, what it feels like, what the emotion is, and the words come after.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.”
“I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.”
“I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.”

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