"I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation-for being alive to have this particular moment."

-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Gratitude Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Moving Quotes

“How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.”

Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin
“Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.”

Source : Ken Auletta, Terence Smith, John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy, University of Notre Dame (2005). “Whom do journalists work for?”
“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

Source : "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.
“I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.”
“But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.”
“The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.”
“Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.”
“I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.”

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