"One finds one's way only by taking it."

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Source : A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.199, CUA Press

Antonin Sertillanges

“I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!”
“Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai”, p.95, Univ of California Press
“Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!”
“The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.”
“The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.”

Source : "Bipartisan test awaits new Congress" by Martha Roby, www.politico.com. November 13, 2012.
“As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.”
“I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.”
“Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!”

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