"Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times itâ€™s more exhausting than lifting pianos."

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Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.329, Spiegel & Grau

Steve Toltz

#Relationship Quotes #Talking Quotes #Piano Quotes

“Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be able to buy and read them. In this way we can help to cultivate spiritual culture in them also.”
“I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of lifeâ€™s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
“All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.”
“Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.”

Source : Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books
“Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?”
“Life began after I fell in love with you”
“Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.”
“The workload is so heavy you forget about thinking, it just kind of happens.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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