"Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy."

-- Ann Voskamp

#Reality Quotes #Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.”
“I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.”

Source : "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.
“The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.”
“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriendâ€¦ I suppose I ought to have realize itâ€™s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.”
“A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.”

Source : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
“I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.”

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