"The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own."

-- Frederick Buechner

#Strong Quotes #Reality Quotes #Steel Quotes

“One of the things that I wanted was to be known as one of the finest MCs and I think the people gave me the respect I was looking for.”
“Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.”
“Your mind-set is your primary weapon”
“I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!”

Source : "The Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield". Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.
“Real wealth is ideas plus energy.”
“One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.”
“I know that one day I would love to do a musical.”

Source : "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.
“When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.”

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