"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

-- Wendell Berry

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“My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.”
“You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.”
“I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.”

Source : The Arena Debates: Driving the Conversation by David Mark, www.politico.com. April 07, 2012.
“Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
“It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.”

Source : Reginald A. Ray (2008). “Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body”, p.334, Sounds True
“My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.”
“Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.”

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