"When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Wish Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Way Quotes

“After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.”
“Courage is required to make an initial thrust toward one's coveted goal, but even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve. Have the determination to make the effort, the single-mindedne ss to work toward a worthy goal, and the courage not only to face the challenges that inevitably come but also to make a second effort, should such be required.”
“Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.”
“Usually I will hear a sample, think of a theme and then it will take me a couple of days to write down some lyrics. Then I will decide that I hate those lyrics and rewrite. Then I will change all the music around. Then I will rewrite all the lyrics again. I am a bit of a perfectionist although you would never know it because all my songs are like chopped up and @#$%& up, but you see that's on purpose.”
“Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.”
“Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again”
“The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.”

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