"Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity."

-- Peter McWilliams

#School Quotes #Adversity Quotes #People Quotes

“We are so very rich if we know just a few people in a way in which we know no others.”
“I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.”
“With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.”
“Kiss me....Cassie....Like you mean it.”
“As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.”
“To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.”
“Accepting Godâ€™s acceptance of me doesnâ€™t mean Iâ€™m going to stop trying. It means Iâ€™m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.”
“In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.”

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