"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger."

-- Jeff Koons

#Artist Quotes #Trying Quotes #Messengers Quotes

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”
“There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place.”
“I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes.”
“If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?”

Source : Edward Albee (2004). “The Play about the Baby”, Methuen Publishing
“Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.”
“As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.”
“In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.”
“Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.”

Source : Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.74, Image

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