"Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now."

-- Rachel Joyce

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Different Quotes

“Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (1866). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series”, p.174
“You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.”
“I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story. The film has been extremely well received around the world. It keeps on going around, opening in different markets, and connecting with the audience. In Argentina it was seen by over 450, 000 spectators, which is way more than anything we could have imagined.”
“Imagination makes cowards of us all.”
“This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!”

Source : "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.
“I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.”
“Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.”
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.”

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