We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAEven now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
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I don’t believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I’ve been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.
BETH ORTON -
All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
ADYASHANTI -
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
BILL HYBELS -
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders
IDA B. WELLS -
I’ve got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.
ASAP ROCKY -
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
HARUKI MURAKAMI -
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINO -
Every religion you are, every ethnicity you are, every sex you are, if you’re gay or straight. You should be considered as equal as anybody else. That’s super-simple, but apparently we have to still march for it.
BIANCA BALTI -
I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
ALAN ALDA -
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. WILSON -
If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
BRENT WEEKS -
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
EDWARD DE BONO -
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
GEORGE S. PATTON -
Always remember, you are beautiful.
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