"It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy."

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Ann Brashares

#Roots Quotes #Joy Quotes #Putting Yourself Out There Quotes

“"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.”
“I want people to think that I'm a magical, weird-looking freak of nature, but they really see me as a sexy Amazon jungle cat. That makes sense - I'm a little bit of both, but I definitely lean toward the narwhal side of the equation.”
“All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.”
“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.”
“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”

Source : M.C. Beaton (2009). “Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor”, p.61, Hachette UK
“I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
“I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.”

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