"Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you."

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Marisha Pessl

#Heart Quotes #Dark Quotes #Strive Quotes

“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”
“The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.”
“I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.”
“When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself ...”
“High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.”
“Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.”

Source : Suresh Srivastva, David L. Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University (1990). “Appreciative management and leadership: the power of positive thought and action in organizations”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
“The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.”
“One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion. Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible- and perhaps it really is.”

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