"My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go."

-- Sonya Hartnett

#Letting Go Quotes #Fear Quotes #Moving Quotes

“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

Source : Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.”

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.8, Pan Macmillan
“Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether.”
“If I was a young director starting off, there's so many tools at your disposal now to do things relatively inexpensively that it's a great time to learn your chops and do some cool music videos. If I started all over again, I'd still be doing music videos, I'd just be doing them very differently. It's very difficult for me to do them now, but for young kids out there that love music and want to tackle a different art form - and I do think music video is an art form - that's a very cool thing to do.”
“What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.”
“Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.”
“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.”

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