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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fiction #goals #guidance #novels #perfection

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that. ↗

— Elisabeth Rohm

#fall #hunger #life #love #made

Learn from them, baby. You got one life, never use it just to breathe. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#life

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. ↗

— Claudius

#miserable #more #nothing #person #than

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. ↗

— A.L. Kennedy

#enrichment #humility #personal-satisfaction #strangers #success

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inferiority #self-esteem #superiority #truth #truth-telling

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones. Satisfied. Patient. Dependable. Tell me, then, Alobar, in order to achieve immortality, should you emulate water or stone? Should you trust your flesh or your bones? ↗

— Tom Robbins

#death #immortality #life #permanence #stones

It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#perspective #time #life

Life truly becomes exactly what you make it. All the choices lead to the reality you are experiencing. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#experiencing #life #reality #life

In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#life #perfection #life