"For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them."

-- Frantz Fanon

#Reality Quotes #Helping Quotes #Beloved Quotes

“And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe”, p.6, Random House
“Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.”
“When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.”
“Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?”

Source : Song: Don t Mess With Karma, Album: Smoke and Mirrors, 2013
“The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.”

Source : "Star of Parenthood and Kingdom Jonathan Tucker: Giving Back". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.”
“Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.”
“My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being...”

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