"My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism."

-- Laura Marling

#Song Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Realism Quotes

“The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.”

Source : "Hi, I'm Paul Feig, and I Wear a Suit Every Day for a Reason". www.esquire.com. September 27, 2012.
“Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad aboutâ€”no matter what 'twas”

Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
“I put a lot of pressure on myself to figure out what to say and, lately, I've started trying to work through things in my head. Before, I wouldn't trust my instincts or what I wanted to say and I really struggled with what I wanted to say. I guess it's just the classic case of writer's block and learning how to work through that. I'm slowly learning how.”
“The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.128, David R. Godine Publisher
“I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard”
“It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.83, 谷月社
“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”
“I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.”

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