"Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular."

-- Henri Nouwen

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“Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.”
“It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome.”

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“I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.”

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“Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.”

Source : Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.”
“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”
“choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.43, BookBaby
“If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.”

Source : Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

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