"Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now."

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Source : Mattie J. T. Stepanek (2002). “Hope through heartsongs”, Hyperion Books

Mattie Stepanek

#Far Away Quotes

“The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.”
“It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.”
“I've worked hard with my body, just in case someone needs me to play third or short. I'm happy to go back to short, it's my natural position. I'm here to help and here to do whatever the manager wants me to do.”
“Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.”
“So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.”
“I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I look back on them all the time and constantly feel like I owe it to the other projects that I've made that have gotten me to where I am.”
“What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?”
“If, as a culture, we donâ€™t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they donâ€™t â€” if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live â€” well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.”

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