"You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Needs Quotes #World Quotes #Groups Quotes

“While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.”
“We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that itâ€™s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much itâ€™s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
“Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.”
“I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.”
“Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth.”
“If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.”

Source : "Q&A – Jon Bernthal (Shane)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.
“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
“A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.”

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