"If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct methods, will strike you as being more available."

-- Margot Livesey

#Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes #World Quotes

“Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”
“Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.”
“Sell to their needs-not from yours.”
“Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.”
“My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.”
“If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?”

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