"Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes."

-- Amitava Kumar

#Book Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There are some things (like first love and oneâ€™s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.”
“The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out from under you. You can't live in fear, or thinking "I'll never figure it out." The more consciously we can understand what we're experiencing, the more that is our protection. So, we run into adversity, but we don't have to stay there if we have imagination and a way to help ourselves change course. Sometimes we can't - knowing the difference is wisdom and the acceptance that we have enough.”
“There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.”
“I am so rich that I must give myself away.”

Source : Reinhard A. Steiner, Egon Schiele (1993). “Egon Schiele 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist”, Taschen
“Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.”
“My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.”
“Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.”

Source : Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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