"Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift."

-- Rachael Yamagata

#Pain Quotes #Creative Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”

Source : Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.”

Source : Victor Cruz, Peter Schrager (2012). “Out of the Blue”, p.5, Penguin
“The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.”
“The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.”

Source : John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”
“In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.”
“A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.”
“Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.”
“Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself.”

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