"By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength."

-- Pema Chodron

#Knowing Quotes #Inner Strength Quotes #Acting Quotes

“We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasnâ€™t a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me.”
“On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.”
“I don't even think my voice is really good.”
“I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.”

Source : Dorothy Uhnak (1977). “The Investigation”
“Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.”
“Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK
“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”
“Bad guys need love too.”

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