Not Being Defined By Your Job Quotes

1. "As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction."
Author: Amy Waldman

2. "I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats."
Author: Anne Lamott

3. "A free country? they asked. You should live so long. What's free about it, they reasoned, when the law forces you to educate your children and then endangers their lives to get them into school?"
Author: Betty Smith

4. "I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?"
Author: Bret Easton Ellis

5. "You've made that clear. But why do you assume I've done something wrong? Have I ever lied to you, or kept anything from you? I trusted you. You assume I've never been hurt and that trust comes easily to me. You're too busy guarding your own heart to realize that maybe I'm not the arsehole people expect me to be."
Author: Christina Lauren

6. "I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day."
Author: David Millar

7. "Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity."
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

8. "If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late."
Author: J. B. Smoove

9. "He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist."
Author: Jackie Kennedy

10. "I am the Hooray Distributor. Hold your hands flat, not like begging for money, but as if you're about to applaud. Now clap, damn you."
Author: Jarod Kintz

11. "I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring."
Author: Javier Bardem

12. "Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives."
Author: Jill Scott

13. "Sweetest being, don't misunderstand me!Who dares name the nameless?Or who dares to confess:‘I believe in him'?Yet who, in feeling,Self-revealing,Says: ‘I don't believe'?The all-clasping,The all-upholding,Does it not clasp, upholdYou: me, itself?Don't the heavens arch above us?Doesn't earth lie here under our feet?And don't the eternal stars, rising,Look down on us in friendship?Are not my eyes reflected in yours?And don't all things pressOn your head and heart,And weave, in eternal mystery,Visibly: invisibly, around you? Fill your heart from it: it is so vast,And when you are blessed by the deepest feeling,Call it then what you wish,Joy! Heart! Love! God!I have no name       For it! Feeling is all:Names are sound and smoke,Veiling Heaven's bright glow."
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

14. "...while I was vowing to save Nick, he had taken on the job of being my protector and staunchest defender"
Author: Katherine Allred

15. "Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie."
Author: Kris Carr

16. "But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, they come back again without your permission." And sometimes they come back incomplete or warped"
Author: Kristin Cashore

17. "To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again."
Author: Kristin Hannah

18. "But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep."
Author: Margaret Atwood

19. "If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet."
Author: Ray Lewis

20. "I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy."
Author: Rick Pitino

21. "It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif."
Author: Roy Ayers

22. "When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism."
Author: Shirin Ebadi

23. "It's a big step, moving to a new city, especially a city as extreme as New York. It's not the same as London...""I know," I nod. "You have to get your nails done."
Author: Sophie Kinsella

24. "When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion."
Author: Stephen Levine

25. "The let-alone lies not in your good will."
Author: William Shakespeare

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