"You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly."

-- Elizabeth Streb

#Self Quotes #Protection Quotes #Barriers Quotes

“It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.”
“The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.”
“I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.”
“I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed to other beauties and the complexities of character and world.”
“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”
“I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.”
“Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!”

Source : Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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