"With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory."

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Source : Tim Parks (2012). “Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing”, p.13, Rodale

Tim Parks

#Book Quotes #Territory Quotes #Taste Quotes

“Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.”

Source : "As the World Turns" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1998.
“As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.”
“Love is all the small moments. It is what fills the quiet.”
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
“Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.”
“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.”

Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee
“Our past is not our potential.”

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