"Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them."

-- Joseph Joubert

#Country Quotes #Travel Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.”
“I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.”

Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.
“Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.”
“The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.”

Source : Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)
“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”

Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House
“Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.”
“Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.”
“She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.”

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