"Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!"

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Yann Martel

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“When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.”
“In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.”
“Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”

Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
“The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.”
“Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.”

Source : "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.
“Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.”

Source : Forrest Church (2008). “Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow”, p.46, Beacon Press

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