"We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom."

-- Ani DiFranco

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“A crisis + time = humor.”
“I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.”
“Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.”
“Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.”
“Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.”
“Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.”
“The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.”
“So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.”

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