"Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself."

-- Wojciech Kurtyka

#Climbing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“Now that I'm a professional writer it's a little more difficult to enjoy a movie if it's not well done and a lot of the horror movies are not great, but when something's really good, like I really loved The Conjuring. That just scared the bejesus out of me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We with [ Marjane Satrapi] always work together on the script which is very important. We even film each other and we start to imagine things so that we are ready, because when you start shooting, it's pretty stressful.”
“She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.”
“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.”
“I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.”
“To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.”
“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love...”
“You are more powerful than any fearful force. Your Divine willingness can out-will any darkness that the world has ever seen.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 16, 2016

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