"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.”
“Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.”
“I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.”
“To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.”
“To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.”

Source : Alan McGlashan (1988). “The Savage and Beautiful Country: The Secret Life of the Mind”, p.112, Daimon
“Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.”
“If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.”
“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.”

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