Blankenberg Twin Quotes & Sayings

I thought about the people I had met who were in pain but were pretending that everything was fine. And I thought, this is what books can do for us: they can acknowledge our experience and take the lid off our isolation and make us feel less alone. To me, books have always been a great source of comfort
not because they allow for escapism (though that's certainly one of their benefits) but because they offer recognition. Face to face with other people, we might give in to the impulse to pretend that everything is "fine"; but when we open the cover of a book
I'm talking mostly about novels here
there is no shame and no need to pretend. Good fiction has never lied to me. When I immerse myself in a book I feel recognized and therefore relieved. I turn the pages and think, yes, I have felt that too
that loneliness and joy and anxiety and confusion and fear. When I read, what once seemed meaningless gains meaning, and I am not alone. — Julie Schumacher

If I walk into a store, I'm going to buy the best jacket or the best item in the store, hands down. — Theophilus London

Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners. — Marcel Proust

Don't let your feelings be a God to you. — Joyce Meyer

It's incredibly important to note that when you don't allow failure, you get more failure. — Seth Klarman

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy. — Michael Meade

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree. — Abbas Kiarostami

I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete. — Collier Schorr

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned. — Phyllis McGinley

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it. — Finley Peter Dunne

For me to accept baptism, I had to believe in Christ's reality - in the reality not just of his life but also of his miracles and death and resurrection. But how could I? Such things don't happen. Look around you. There are no miracles. There can be no resurrection. The clockwork world is all in all. But such things don't happen, I knew now, was the ultimate irrational prejudice of the human mind: the belief that the symbols of reality are more real than the reality they symbolize. That's us all over. We believe that money is more valuable than the work it represents, that sex is more essential than the love it expresses, that an actor is more admirable than the hero he portrays, that flesh is more alive than spirit. That's the whole nature of our deluded lives, the cause of so much of our misery. — Andrew Klavan

Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. — Yves Behar

Love to learn - hate to be taught. — Winston S. Churchill

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie. — Karl Urban

The world is not a 'thing' (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul. — Dada Bhagwan