"The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldnâ€™t see it."

-- Ann Brashares

#Light Quotes #Circles Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.”
“There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.”
“Tremendous teammate, that's what comes to mind when I think of Scottie Pippen. He was a very caring teammate who was always concerned about the team, always concerned about it. He just had a great understanding of the team concept. Everyone talks about a great teammate, but he really was a great guy to play with. He may have been having a 25 or 30-point game, but if he knew you were struggling, he'd find a way to get you going as well. He's that type of guy.”
“Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.”
“I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.”
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.”

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