"Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say."

-- Rumi

#Relief Quotes #Longing Quotes #Birdsong Quotes

“The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.”
“I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.”
“I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.”
“Vasari has been a trusted friend on my painting journey for the last 12 years. Vasari is hands down the best oil paint on the market thanks to its unique hues, handling properties, purity and density of pigment.”
“Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.”

Source : "Something Deeply Unfeminist About a Miniskirt". The Times, May 27, 2004.
“Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.”

Source : 'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3
“They live too long who happiness outlive.”
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”

Source : Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”

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