"Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it."

--

Source : "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.

Alex Garland

#Hurt Quotes #Circles Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.”
“Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.178, Rowman & Littlefield
“Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.”
“I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.”
“I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.”
“Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now....Certainly I'll never find the level of compassion Christ carried, but trying to learn that compassion is enough to carry me through.”
“I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".”
“If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue”

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