Quotes
Authors
Rainer Maria Rilke

"If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

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“I've done more for the 9/11 families, by their own admission, I've done more for them than you will ever hope to do so you keep your mouth shut.”
“And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.”

Source : Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
“Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.”
“He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'”
“It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to myself, and as a Muslim, I believe that God created everything and intended everything and here we are in this unbelievably vast universe that's billions of years old. And yet, here I am, an individual human being, in a little corner of the galaxy and planet that is remarkable in some ways and unremarkable in others. All I wish is to say that He meant for every single person who's ever lived to live. I don't necessarily understand why but that was His choice and here I am.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Shape your coat according to your cloth.”
“That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.”
“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

Source : "Schoenberg‎". Book by Merle Armitage, p. 143, 1971.

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