"Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Understanding Quotes #Saying Yes Quotes #Way Quotes

“I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.”
“That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.”
“There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.”
“If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.”
“And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California”
“Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1929). “Song and laughter”
“I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.”
“There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.”

Source : "Say what? The arcane wisdom of Jaden and Willow Smith" by Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2014.

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