"If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Deborah Solomon

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Creative Quotes

“God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of Love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. [and love and awareness and hope! -EM]”
“I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.”

Source : Jim Thompson (2010). “POP. 1280”, p.9, Hachette UK
“Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.”
“How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms”
“I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.”
“I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.”
“I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.”
“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”

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