#though

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. ↗

— John Pilger

#called #country #extreme #government #labour

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#how #negative #never #powerful #realized

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#give #love #love is #pure #pure love

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#criterion #doing #inner #inner peace #judge

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#because #claims #clash #connections #empirical

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#always #canvas #fear #finding #had

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't. ↗

— Pitbull

#creating #even #feel #fighting #i

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#done #entire #felt #got #hadn