"Look at your own life. Has it become overly complex? Have you found yourself burdened by too many possessions or responsibilities? Take a deep breath and ask yourself: "What steps can I take to reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously?""

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Source : Douglas Bloch (1988). “Words That Heal: Affirmations and Meditations for Daily Living”, p.49, BookBaby

Douglas Bloch

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“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”
“Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.”
“But sometimes the very things you fall in love with people for, become the things you like least about them, in the end.”

Source : Katharine Brush (1942). “The boy from Maine”
“Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.”
“And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.”
“What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.”

Source : Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com.
“Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.”

Source : "The Enlightenment". Book by Norman Hampson, 1968.
“I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.”

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