"Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder."

Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.223, Celestial Arts

Jeanne Elium

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Night Quotes

“Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.”
“I don't want...to run away by myself... because no matter what...I'd rather be together with everyone...”

Source : "Fairy Tail". Manga series by Hiro Mashima, Chapter 227, December 15, 2006 - October 17, 2013.
“Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.”
“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”

Source : "Holder talks financial crime, affirmative action at Low". Columbia Spectator, February 24, 2012.
“As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).”
“If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.”

Source : R. O. Blechman (2009). “Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.”

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