"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
“Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.”
“Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.”
“O my Savior...teach me to pray; implant in me all the dispositions needful for the prayer of the Holy Spirit....Of what use is my prayer if the Holy Spirit does not pray with me? Come, Holy Spirit, come to dwell and work with me! Take possession of my understanding and of my will; govern my actions not only at the moment of prayer but at every moment.”
“No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.”
“Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.”
“This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.”
“Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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