"I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Stars Quotes #Rose Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And that guy you were watching was this guy Murray Miller, who's actually not an actor, he's a writer that Rodney and I are friends with. He's just crazily funny, especially when hitting on people.”
“TheÂ BuddhaÂ never taught a sectarian religion; he taughtÂ DhammaÂ - the way to liberation - which is universal.”
“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
“Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.”
“I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.”
“Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.”
“Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.”
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”

Source : Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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