"Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace."

-- Jacques Derrida

#Opening Up Quotes #Risk Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
“You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.”
“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.24, Carolrhoda Lab ™
“I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.”
“I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.”
“I was growing, so I had to scrunch my feet up. Now people are like: "Why do you have so many shoes." I jump at the fact that I can wear something new everyday.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by the view from our elevation - off west the lights of Montana, Hungry Horse, and Columbia Falls, and farmsteads along the northern edge of Flathead Lake, and back in the direction of sunrise the soft and misted valleys of the parklands, not an electric light showing: little enough to preserve for the wanderings of a great and sacred animal who can teach us, if nothing else, by his power and his dilemma, a little common humility.”
“It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.”

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