"...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties."

-- John Piper

#Dark Quotes #Despair Quotes #Pessimism Quotes

“Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.”

Source : Alice Childress, Kathy A. Perkins (2011). “Selected Plays”, p.97, Northwestern University Press
“Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.”
“The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind.”
“For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.”
“It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.”
“Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.”
“But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.”
“Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.”

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