"The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passionâ€“â€“ cools your fears with peace."

-- Aberjhani

#Peace Quotes #Fear Quotes #Passion Quotes

“Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.”
“Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.”
“That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.”
“I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.”
“If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.”

Source : Wallace Shawn (1985). “Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play”, p.92, Grove Press
“To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.”
“Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.”
“Party is organized opinion.”

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