"No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is."

-- James F. Cooper

#Stars Quotes #Taught Quotes

“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.”
“The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced”
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.”
“People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.”
“If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.”

Source : Song: I'm With Whateva, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter, 2005
“I had so many other things I could fall back on as an entrepreneur (with multiple businesses). When I finally was true to myself and what I wanted to do - and acting was it - there was nothing else I could think of. I thought "If I fail, I'm falling hard (because) I don't have anything else to fall back on. Am I going to accept that?"...I never looked back. I never (let myself) put it in my mind to fail.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.”
“Something impractical cannot be beautiful.”

Source : Otto Wagner (1988). “Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to this Field of Art”, p.82, Getty Publications

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