"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."

-- Anatole Broyard

#Rome Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.”
“Creativity is like chasing chickens.”
“When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.”

Source : "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.
“You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ...”
“I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.”
“We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.”
“The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.”
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.”

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