"There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst."

-- Frida Kahlo

#Love Quotes #Happy Friday Quotes #Two Quotes

“And he's pressing into her and she into him, bodies shivering, like they are two scared, lost children, starving, starving to be touched, to be held, by someone, anyone, the first one they can find who seems familiar enough, safe enough, strong enough to rescue them. They breathe, heavy. Hard. Their fingers strain at cotton. And then they slow down. Stop. Hold. Rest. Before one of them, or both, begins to sob. Before they break another piece that needs to be fixed.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.152, Simon and Schuster
“Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.”
“So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you wonâ€™t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.”
“For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can't innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success.”

Source : Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons
“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.”
“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”
“The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.”

Source : "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.
“I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.”

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