"All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce."

-- Mark Lawrence

#Fierce Quotes #Tales Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

Source : William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press
“I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that”
“What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.”
“There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.”

Source : "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.
“Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.”

Source : "Labour must learn from Obama" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2008.
“One way or another, if youâ€™re persistent, fortune always smiles on you.”
“True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.”
“There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.”

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