"Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us."

-- Regina Brett

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes

“I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.”
“God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”
“I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.”

Source : "Producer Adi Shankar Talks TRUTH IN JOURNALISM Short, the Success of DIRTY LAUNDRY, Casting Ryan Kwanten, Shared Universes, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 31, 2013.
“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”
“I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.”
“They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.”

Source : Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
“If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.”
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton

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