"Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become."

-- Matthew Barnett

#People Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.”
“I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.”
“I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.”
“A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.”
“Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.”

Source : "Revelations of Divine Love". Book by Julian of Norwich (The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 86), circa 1393.
“Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 08, 2011
“The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.”
“When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.”

Source : "Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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