Arcia Flowers Quotes & Sayings

Group B: I've simply stopped sending unnecessary e-mails and asked my friends and colleagues to do the same. I've also started setting the expectation that it might take me a few days to respond. If it's important, call me. Don't text or e-mail. Call. Better yet, stop by my office. — Brene Brown

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Addiction" might be the best word to explain the lostness that so deeply permeates society. Our addiction make us cling to what the world proclaims as the keys to self-fulfillment: accumulation of wealth and power; attainment of status and admiration; lavish consumption of food and drink, and sexual gratification without distinguishing between lust and love. These addictions create expectations that cannot but fail to satisfy our deepest needs. As long as we live within the world's delusions, our addictions condemn us to futile quests in "the distant country," leaving us to face an endless series of disillusionments while our sense of self remains unfulfilled. In these days of increasing addictions, we have wandered far away from our Father's home. The addicted life can aptly be designated a life lived in "a distant country." It is from there that our cry for deliverance rises up. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work. — Jason Momoa

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine. — Jeremy Lin

When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being. — Hugh Prather

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business. — Jeff Healey

All our loves are first loves. — Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

love is not time's fool — William Shakespeare