"...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain."

-- Anne Michaels

#Spiritual Quotes #Pain Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I like Israel. The fans are incredible. It was the best.”
“I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?”
“All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.”
“Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.”
“I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.”

Source : "Jennifer Aniston talks tabloids and staying normal in Hollywood". Q&A, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2014.
“I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?”
“Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.”

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