"The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety."

-- Irvin D. Yalom

#Dream Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #People Quotes

“People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, Nothing can go wrong with them. We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.”
“Some people will find any reason to hate. Donâ€™t waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.”
“Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.”

Source : Source: www.hitfix.com
“The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.”
“Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.”
“A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.”
“I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.”

Source : "Matthew Lillard Talks Fat Kid Rules the World, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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