"Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering."

-- Christa Wolf

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Self Quotes

“Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.”

Source : "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When". p. 387. Book by Ralph Keyes, New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006.
“Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.”
“Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.”
“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.”
“I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. Itâ€™s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure forâ€¦Last night was the first night Iâ€™ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. Itâ€™s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense Iâ€™ve tried.”
“Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.”

Source : Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”

Source : "The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy" edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988.
“Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion...”

Source : "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

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