"Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots."

-- Mark Tobey

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“Sometimes when weâ€™re in situations where we feel weâ€™re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.”
“Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members, that there are tares amid the wheat. . . . Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.”
“We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.”
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”

Source : Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.”
“Not that I feel like I have a lack of confidence, it's just good to stand up in front of people who don't really know what to expect. Am I going to say something? Am I going to sing? And often when I do say anything it gets a laugh, because everyone's already used to laughing. So I can seem like I'm actually a funny person.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Joy could be as exhausting as grief.”
“Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.”

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