"I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love."

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Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Abide With Me”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

Elizabeth Strout

#Giving Up Quotes #Trying Quotes #Permission Quotes

“Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear night, out of all the countless lights that twinkle and shine, there will come one. That star will be seen in a blaze, burning a path of light across the roof of the earth, a great comet.”

Source : Brian Jacques (2004). “Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall”, p.12, Penguin
“I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?”
“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.”

Source : Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown
“I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.”
“It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons”
“Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.”
“We need to appreciate how precious life is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.”

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