"But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be."

-- Meg Wolitzer

#Taken Quotes #One Day Quotes #World Quotes

“...this pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun.”
“Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.57, Basic Books
“When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, itâ€™s the little guys who come home in body bags.”
“When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: You can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.”
“'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!”
“It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.”
“To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,”
“You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the end. You immerse yourself in a room full of talent and a room full of designers and you hope for the best.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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