"..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that werenâ€™t funny."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Loneliness Quotes #Believe Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Itâ€™s not about how much pressure you put on, itâ€™s how good you are at taking it off.”
“It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward.”
“The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.”
“Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.”
“Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.”
“I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.”
“Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.”

Source : "John W. Kluge, 95, RIP. Entrepreneur, Benefactor to Columbia University" by Dave Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

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