"much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ..."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#Cheerful Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Faculty Quotes

“God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.”
“All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.”
“Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.”
“Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and theyâ€™ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 152), 1986.
“I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a specter from the book's outset.”
“But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.”
“When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.”
“To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.”

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