"The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence."

-- William James

#Character Quotes #Roots Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“You canâ€™t stand up in a Cadillac, either.”
“You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, youâ€™ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. Youâ€™ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, youâ€™ll weep for nothing, pine for whatâ€™s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.”
“You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.”
“Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.”

Source : "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.”
“Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.”
“There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.”
“After all a book can be represented as a conversation with oneâ€™s demon.”

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