"But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?"

--

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing

Gabrielle Zevin

#Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?”
“Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.”
“Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.”
“The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.”
“Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy of the very process of clarification or understanding," not to mention the enemy of the "transcendent or ultimate."”
“The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.”

Source : Albert Richard Smith (1848). “The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad”, p.63
“Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.”
“You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jun 24, 2014

You may also like: