"Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises."

-- Rita Gelman

#Inspirational Quotes #Keys Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.”

Source : Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Glitter and Glue: A Memoir”, p.188, Ballantine Books
“Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.”
“True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”

Source : Jeffrey Archer (2012). “The New Collected Short Stories”, p.374, Pan Macmillan
“April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
“Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.”
“I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words”
“I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.”

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