"Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close."

-- Rumi

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“As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.”
“I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.”

Source : "Character: Police Captain". "Where the Boys Are", www.imdb.com. 1960.
“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”

Source : "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography". Book by Matthew Sturgis, p. 189, 1999.
“The policies being promoted are insane... If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most of the world disagrees with that.”
“You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.”
“I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.”
“There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his own self. God didn't do anything; He was one and wished to be many. He wished - and there were many. If He had not wished there to be many, it would have been sufficient-there would still be the wordless state. So to be in a wordless state is very supreme.”
“We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.”

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