"Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection."

-- Tavis Smiley

#Rejection Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the truth is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.”

Source : Victoria Forester (2008). “The Girl Who Could Fly”, p.275, Macmillan
“As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
“It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.”

Source : Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.266, Theatre Communications Group
“Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”
“The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look, I miss you darlin', so I went out and got drunk in this bar.' That's the way you say it. Where in Tin Pan Alley they would say, 'Oh I missed you darling, so I went to this restaurant and I sat down and had a dinner for one.' That's cleaned up now, you see? But country and blues tells it like it is.”
“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
“If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.”

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