"You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things."

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Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.39, Penguin

Jamie Tworkowski

#Song Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.”
“But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.”
“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”
“No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.”
“Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.”
“For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another.”

Source : Peter Dickens (1992). “Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory”, p.15, Temple University Press
“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country . . . if we don't, someone else will run our country.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.”

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