"Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it."

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Source : Jennifer Echols (2009). “Going Too Far”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

Jennifer Echols

#Purpose Quotes #Chance Quotes #This Life Quotes

“Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)”
“Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!”
“The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds.”
“Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.”

Source : Champfleury (1885). “The Cat, Past and Present”
“The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream. So the museums are like brothers, but different.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”
“Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.”
“Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think theyâ€™re not â€” because the thing they were good at at school wasnâ€™t valued, or was actually stigmatized.”

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