"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, thatâ€™s like saying you can never change your fate."

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Source : "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 1995.

Amy Tan

#Inspiring Quotes #Dream Quotes #Hope Quotes

“If it wasn't for my trainer - who comes looking for me three times a week before 7 A.M. - I wouldn't get my butt out of bed and into the gym. There are many mornings when I think about faking a sprained ankle, but I just put it out of my head and make myself go.”
“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
“It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. (Aragorn talking of Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)”
“I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.”
“The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.”
“The books are to remind us what ***** and fools we are.”
“I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”

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