"I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say."

-- Andrew Ripp

#Grateful Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #Years Quotes

“As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.”
“I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.”
“Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing”
“If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.”
“The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press
“Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have lived hundreds or thousands of years ago. You can know what's like to be old if you're young or young if you're old. You can know what it's like to live in a completely different culture and really enter somebody else's mind. There's no amount of historical information that can give you access to the consciousness of a person from another culture or from the past in the way that reading really good novel from that place or time can.”
“Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.”
“Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org

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