"I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me."

-- Annie Lennox

#Dark Quotes #Focus Quotes #Soul Quotes

“When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.”
“I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.”

Source : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
“My religion is life, and my church is the universe.”
“When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?”

Source : "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.
“You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even if you do work really hard, there's no guarantee about anything. There's no advice you can give someone that things will somehow work out, but you can talk to people about how they can make art a big part of their life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“So he enjoys a girl who stands up to him," Dad said once we all calmed down. "I like him more already.”
“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.
“You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.”

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