"Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle."

-- Marianne de Pierres

#Thinking Quotes #Mad Quotes #Wish Quotes

“If you have a dream, only share it with those that are going to support you. Walk toward it on a daily basis and don't let anyone's doubting or negativity throw you off your path.”
“Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
“Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.”

Source : Nicholas Meyer (2009). “The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood”, p.108, Penguin
“Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.”
“Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.”
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance...”
“Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible.”

Source : John Crowley (2015). “Little, Big”, p.193, Hachette UK

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