"Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can."

-- Joy Page

#Focus Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It's waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it's possibilities, and yet it's heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2004). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.289, Simon and Schuster
“We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.”

Source : "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.
“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.27, Open Road Media
“I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Iâ€™d forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to â€œDo You Really Want to Hurt Meâ€ seemed too close to home at the mo-ment. â€œCulture Club?â€ Now his mouth curled downward. â€œAnd you accuse me of practicing cruel and unusual punishment.”
“It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.”

Source : "The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015.
“A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.”
“Goals determine what you are going to be”

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