"At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth."

-- May Sarton

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Holding Back Quotes

“You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring something else out in you. You're not having to fake that or imagine that. It's there. It becomes as much an act of something you bounce off as the other people you're working with.”
“Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.”
“People are quite frequently eccentric.”
“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.”
“Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.”
“Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Jun 05, 2013
“Riot â€“ A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.”
“The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.”

Source : Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1854). “Hufeland's art of prolonging life”, p.99

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