"Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating."

-- Richard Rohr

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“The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.”
“I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.”
“A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.”

Source : Romain Gary (1968). “The Dance of Genghis Cohn”, New American Library of Canada
“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”

Source : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”
“Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting.”
“I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.”
“I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States”
“The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”

Source : George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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