"The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories."

-- Robert Barron

#Letting Go Quotes #Fun Quotes #Drama Quotes

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
“I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.”
“I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
“You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.”
“Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hilary Mantel from Mar 08, 2014
“It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.”
“Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.”

Source : Leon Edel (1970). “Henry D. Thoreau”
“Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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