"Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes."

-- Spike Jonze

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Connections Quotes

“...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.”
“In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.”
“There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”

Source : Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.47, Criss Jami
“A joke a day keeps the gloom away!”

Source : "Fictional character: The Joker". "Batman: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 1966.
“Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.31, Grove Press
“May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.”
“When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.178, University of Chicago Press
“I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.”

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