"See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be"

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Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press

E. Lockhart

#Wish Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes

“We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what ***** and fools we are.”
“Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
“If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.”

Source : "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, tucson.com. May 10, 2014.
“A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.”
“God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other than God's way; but the wonderful Spirit of God will remove confusion and enable us to see that the only means to obtain the experience of entire sanctification by faith is the grace of God.”
“When I haven't any blue I use red.”
“When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.”
“I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.”

Source : "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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