Arthur Kleinman Quotes

#1. We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

Arthur Kleinman

#2. Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

Mitchell Reiss

#3. Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

Dee Rees

#4. Anyone with a long-term partner, anyone with a long-term lover, if that lover dies, you could easily see yourself in a situation where you couldn't see your future and you would be living entirely in the past. It's about that loss.

Tom Ford

#5. JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator.

Stephen Prosapio

#6. lip. She jammed her hands in his wet hair as Lucas spun, setting

Terri Osburn

#7. You know I don't know a chestnut from a conker.'
[ ... ] 'A Chestnut is a conker

Eloisa James

#8. Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

Arthur Kleinman

#9. Longevity is highly over rated.

Martin Kimeldorf

#10. With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. There was[is] something seriously wrong with the world for which neither God nor His absence could be blamed.

Ian McEwan

#12. Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

James Fenimore Cooper

#13. Don't set a goal to avoid pain or escape suffering; set a goal to live in joy and bliss to make this world joyful and blissful.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.

Arthur Kleinman

#15. If you knew at twenty what you know at thirty-five, what a marvellous life you could have; on the other hand, you might find that you couldn't be bothered to have any life at all.

Hilary Mantel

#16. So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

Nancy Anderson

#17. ...grief.
If you eat too much of it, you want more, you can never get enough.

Ai

#18. To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

Annabelle Selldorf