"When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise."

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Source : Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.128, Penguin

Bernie Glassman

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“I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!”
“The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.”

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“The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.”
“Some people have more guts than brains.”

Source : John Grisham (1996). “The Rainmaker”, Dell
“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.”

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“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”
“But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big ways. We're writing things that might make people think about people a little bit, but we're not that important. I think a lot of writers think we are incredibly important. I don't feel like that about my fiction. I feel like it's quite a selfish thing at heart. I want to tell a story. I want someone to listen to me. And I love that, but I don't think I deserve the moon on a stick because I do that.”

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“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”

Source : Alice Munro (2013). “Runaway”, p.252, Random House

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