"Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders."

-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Needs Quotes #Going For It Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Paul Michael Glaser was very nice to me, and I was again told, "Do less and less and less and less." And I still was bad! I can't believe I kept getting hired after some of these things I did! It's baffling to me. I'll go back and look at it, and I can't even watch it [Running man film].”
“Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.”
“I have three kids. I was blessed with very supportive parents and some close friends, and the people closest to me are my inspiration.”

Source : "Christopher Gorham of Covert Affairs: Overcoming Failure and Having Kids". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.”
“That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as well. It resonates with this moment and the sort of alienation from the power structure a lot of people feel, as well as a certain amount of desperation, in the hope of disrupting the power structure so they can live better lives. I think in those ways, it's intimately connected to today.”
“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”

Source : Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.20, Random House
“A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at nightâ€¦every day.”
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,â€ Chiron said. â€œAnd perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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