"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

-- Pema Chodron

#Experience Quotes #Nests Quotes #Alive Quotes

“There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.”
“I don't split poles. When I'm walking with my friends by lampposts, we all walk on the same side. And I won't cross over your legs. If you're sitting down and like chilling on the floor, I won't walk over your legs because then you'll go to jail.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities... Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.”
“Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.”
“With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”
“Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate.”
“I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.”
“Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.128, Vintage

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