"There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day."

-- Alan Watts

#New Day Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Calm Quotes

“A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.”
“I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.”
“I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.”
“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.”
“I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.”
“The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.”
“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.64, Profile Books
“I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.”

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