"A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Ocean Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Self Quotes

“I would love to be friends with Kendrick Lamar because I am just a huge fan of his music, I think he is so cool and he uses so many interesting sounds and has such good melodies and is just a beautiful rapper, his raps are just so well-written and his tracks are so insane, I am obsessed with him.”
“I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.”
“Fame is cool but I believe in success.”
“The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.”
“Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013
“I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.”
“How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.”

Source : Jean Sasson (2010). “Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2”, p.231, Random House

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