"No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity."

-- Henry Van Dyke

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Insanity Quotes

“Thereâ€™s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if youâ€™re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Donâ€™t wait for anybody to tell you itâ€™s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. Thatâ€™s your job.”
“Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.”
“I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.”
“But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.”
“You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.”
“I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.”
“We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?”
“You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.”

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