"When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves."

-- Steven Pressfield

#Running Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Self Quotes

“For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?”
“I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.”
“In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?”
“When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.”
“Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.”
“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.”
“You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.”

Source : Sarah Mlynowski (2010). “Gimme a Call”, p.291, Delacorte Press

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