"The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences."

-- Susanne Katherina Langer

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“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.”
“When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.”
“Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?â€ â€œWell I would if youâ€™d let me finish,â€ he grumbled.”
“Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.”
“The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.”
“You give to yourself by giving of yourself.”
“I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.”

Source : FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Nov 14, 2013

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