"Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself."

-- Julia Cameron

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“Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.”
“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.”
“By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.”

Source : Solomon Schechter (1909). “Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America”
“In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”
“Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press
“If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.”

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“He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!”

Source : "Equus". Book by Peter Shaffer, 1973.
“We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.”

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