"I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that."

-- Mara Wilson

#Feelings Quotes #Want Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life.Â Just be you, then wait.”
“Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.”
“So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.”
“The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?”
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.”
“What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1993). “The Infinite Conversation”, p.343, U of Minnesota Press
“So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.”

Source : Source: wildyogi.info
“My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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