Pasteboard Mask Quotes

#1. We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love's scarcity.

John Welwood

#2. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of
its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

Herman Melville

#3. Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

#4. If you don't believe in miracles, you will see none.

Anthony Douglas

#5. Only by resolving can a human being step into actuality, however bitter this may be to him. Inertia lacks the will to abandon the inward brooding which allows it to retain everything as as a possibility. But possibility is not yet actuality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#6. I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.

Eddie Trunk

#7. I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.

Wilkie Collins

#8. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another.

L. Frank Baum

#9. something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.

Marina Keegan

#10. I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Orlando Bloom

#11. The human person cannot face up to a bad outcome, that's just the deal.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?

Pema Chodron

#13. Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Edward Hall