"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."

-- Betty Friedan

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“The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.”

Source : Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.”
“Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.”
“Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.”
“She took kisses like so many coats of paint [â€¦] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, â€˜She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.”
“It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.”
“Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.”

Source : "Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen - Advaita - Tantra". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1960.

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