Phyllis Theroux Quotes

#1. Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.

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#2. Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

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#3. Perhaps ... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

Mark Morris

#4. If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.

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#5. One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#6. His eyes were sharp but kind, and it seemed to amuse him to see children misbehave when he knew that deep down they didn't really want to misbehave, but were just feeling lonely or misunderstood or wanted to go outside and play instead of sitting in a hot classroom. (26)

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#7. There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which to collect the light.

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#8. It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we become disconnected from the process altogether that we should begin to worry.

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#9. If we lived each day as our last, I bet we'd all be a lot more honest with people, because we wouldn't have to care what people think anymore.

Ellen DeGeneres

#10. To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

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#11. Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.

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#12. There is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

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#13. It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.

Marcia Gay Harden

#14. When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always knew I was, and I had to have fun. If I wasn't doing those three things, then I couldn't do acting anymore.

Shailene Woodley

#15. One of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.

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#16. Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

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#17. Things are not real, but they are the reflection of our imaginations and perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#18. An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

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#19. Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can't send any other way can be heard.

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#20. One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

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#21. I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

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#22. Modern cars I don't like so much.

Amber Heard

#23. The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."

Jake M. Johnson

#24. To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

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#25. My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

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#26. We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

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#27. We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

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#28. A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

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#29. We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

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#30. A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

Chris O'Dowd

#31. I can feel my heart growing daily, which has its uncomfortable aspects, as if it could fall with the weight of love and break.

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#32. Every house has its own private cup of sorrow. (3)

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