"That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing."

-- Carol Kane

#People Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Critical Quotes

“It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.”
“How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.”
“How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.”
“I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,”
“Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.”

Source : Peter Abelard (2012). “Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag
“I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.”
“I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.”

Source : Linda Sunshine (1987). “The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey”, Fireside
“Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.”

Source : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.355

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