"Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!"

-- Mehmet Murat Ildan

#Wise Quotes #Panic Quotes #Anything Can Happen Quotes

“An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?”
“In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.”

Source : Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.33, Harvard University Press
“Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.”
“If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.”
“I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.”
“You know, sometimes when you're too close to someone, it's hard to see who they really are.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.44, Penguin
“I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.”
“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”

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