"But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?"

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Growing Up Quotes #Passion Quotes #Soul Quotes

“We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Justice is happiness according to virtue.”

Source : John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.310, Harvard University Press
“I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.”
“An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.”
“Governments are run by people. People can be bad.”
“Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.”
“Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.”
“Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.”

Source : John Norman (2011). “Marauders of Gor: Gor”, p.8, Hachette UK

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