"Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind."

“Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.”

“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”

“Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.”

“There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.”

Source : Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

“The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.”

“It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it”

“It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.”

“Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.”