"There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient"

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Inspiring Quotes #Reason Quotes #This Life Quotes

“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”
“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.”
“Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.”
“One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.”
“If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.”
“Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
“If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.”

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