"For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

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Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.259, Penguin

Lev Grossman

#Inspirational Quotes #Real Quotes #Character Quotes

“...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).”

Source : Cara Lockwood (2003). “I Do (But I Don't)”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.”
“I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.”
“A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.”
“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”

Source : "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.
“Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.”
“The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.”
“Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.”

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