"The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices."

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Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 22, 2011

Richard Paul Evans

#Writing Quotes #Choices Quotes #Important Quotes

“I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.”
“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.”
“my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.”

Source : Anchee Min (2005). “Empress Orchid”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”
“The messaging campaign that stigmatized the term feminist definitely worked on me when I was a teenager. I always believed in equality, but there's such intense pressure to be cool and not alienate boys, to not be a pain in the ass - to not be "that kind of woman."”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.”

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