"Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm... she had dimples of iron."

“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”

“man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.”

“Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”

“Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.”

Source : John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.3

“I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.”

“Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

“Music stops you from thinking.”