"In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it."

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Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.15, Routledge

Keith Johnstone

#Normal Quotes #Spontaneity Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.”

Source : Greg Iles (2002). “Dead Sleep”, p.257, Penguin
“Your light is seen, your heart is known, your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would be astonished. If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked. You are far more wonderful than you think you are. Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again. You are doing fine. More than fine. Better than fine. Youâ€™re doinâ€™ great. So relax. And love yourself today.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 10, 2014
“It's such a liability to love another person.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.213, Hachette UK
“All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.”
“No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong.”
“If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.”
“People change. Some of the people I once knew I now can't stand.”
“The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.”

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