"When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that."

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.”
“Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.”
“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.146, Rowman & Littlefield
“There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.”
“Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.”
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
“So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.”

Source : Kathy Troccoli (2010). “Live Like You Mean It: Seven Celebrations to Rejuvenate Your Soul”, p.134, WaterBrook
“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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