"I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong."

-- Ira Glass

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.”
“Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.”

Source : Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.52, Harmony
“It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.”
“The Moss of old is back!”
“My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.”
“I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.”
“We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice.”
“I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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