"Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow."

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Source : "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March, 2009.

Elif Safak

#Doe Quotes #Flow Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.”
“John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.”
“When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no shock here - that biblical writers didn't know as much as we now know about the natural world - but God knew that when he picked them, so that alone tells us that "doing science" that would satisfy a 21st century - and beyond - audience wasn't what God was interested in with respect to the enterprise of producing Scripture for posterity.”
“Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds.”

Source : Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”
“The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Thank you,â€ he was whispering, â€œthank you, thank you.â€¦â€ And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.”
“The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story . . ..”
“Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.”

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