"We aren't defined by our work. People think if you over-identify with your work, then that must mean you're giving over too much of yourself to it, that there's something wrong with that. We're trained to believe in things like work-life balance. So much work is tending towards service. It's very much about creating experiences rather than products, and it makes those boundaries between life and work very slippery."

-- Melissa Gira Grant

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
“Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal”
“I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.”
“Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children”

Source : "U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack". www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2014.
“I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.”
“Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think”
“I was raised to believe in the innate goodness of humanity, developed a deep sense of the dignity of the individual human being, and had great appreciation for the miracle of life and our existence on this earth.”
“Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.”

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