"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

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Source : Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

Carson McCullers

#Travel Quotes #Homesick Quotes #Strange Quotes

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
“Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events.”
“In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.”
“We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.”

Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.”
“A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.”
“In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.”

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