"Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion."

-- Thylias Moss

#Alternatives Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Break Quotes

“Brave men are brave from the very first.”
“I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.”
“I don't need to be liked.”
“Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.”
“I tried to will them with my super mental powers so heâ€™d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.”
“And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.”
“I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.”
“Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.”

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