"...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing."

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Source : Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.27, New Directions Publishing

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“It's nice when people approach you to help.”

Source : "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”
“Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.”
“There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.”
“Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”
“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”
“And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.”

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