"We write by the light of every story we have ever read."

-- Richard Peck

#Writing Quotes #Light Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.”
“For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.”

Source : "Smooth Operator: Who is the Real Bernard-Henri Levy?" by Vicky Ward, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2012.
“Never trust a second thought. Where there is two there is three. You will end up thinking forever.”
“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.”
“Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.”

Source : Thomas Starr King (1924). “Socrates: An Oration”
“ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.”
“My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.”
“I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things are way more dispersed, and way more de-centralised than they were twenty years ago. I don't really feel like people talk about my generation the way people would talk about Generation X in their early 90's when Nirvana blew up. I feel like there was an easier, more coherent narrative to find, than you can now.”

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