"I am a romantic, I admit it."

-- Keith Jarrett

“I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN'T have to be.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.”
“I'm just trying to matter.”
“Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

Source : "Fictional character: Chris Gardner". "The Pursuit of Happyness", 2006.
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.163
“You may have good relationships and you may have bad. You just have to roll with it and truly believe, and not be cynical. But, it's hard. You go through four relationships where you're not happy and you've been cheated on, or whatever - and I'm not saying this has happened to me - but you have to still believe.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jan 21, 2012
“The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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