"I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart."

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Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

Shana Alexander

#Struggle Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Snakes Quotes

“In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.”
“Itâ€™s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.”
“Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”
“Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.”
“I like reading. I just hate school.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do and my everyday activities are all discussed with them.”
“When your legs get weaker time starts running faster.”

Source : "Itch of Wisdom". Book by Mikhail Turovsky, 1986.
“There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.”

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