"The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with multimillion-dollar films that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul."

-- Rob Brezsny

#Life Quotes #Children Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.”
“I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2011.
“One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.”
“The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.”
“I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.”

Source : "Anita Ekberg, International Screen Beauty, Dies at 83" by Anita Gates, www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2015.
“Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.”
“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.”

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