"We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them."

-- Katherine Center

#Struggle Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldnâ€™t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldnâ€™t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a libraryâ€™s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of lightâ€¦”

Source : FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012
“From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap ...”

Source : Leonore Fleischer (1991). “The Fisher King”, New Amer Library
“Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.”
“What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. Iâ€™m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.”
“In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.”
“I asked my vet what kind of dog he'd get. He told me, 'I'd get a Chihuahua, because when it died, I wouldn't care.”
“Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?”
“I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.”

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