"On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess."

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Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

Gabrielle Zevin

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“Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.124, Health Communications, Inc.
“The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.”

Source : "Think Diffident". www.wired.com. December 01, 2000.
“I don't find English restrictive, but it brings a level of discipline to my writing that I wouldn't have in Bulgarian. My control of English, however you define it, my ability to work in English, is more limited than in Bulgarian. That means out of necessity I have to develop a style that goes for clarity of expression which I may not have done otherwise.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
“We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.”
“When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].”
“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
“I can't get very excited about a musician who can do Art Tatum because I've got the Art Tatum records. I want to hear him take that and do something that hasn't been done. And there's enough of that going around that keeps the music very exciting. There's so many great young players coming out. I think we're in some kind of renaissance, especially in the rhythm section. I mean the musicians on drums and bass and guitar are really trying to figure out different ways to bring a rhythm section together.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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