"Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through."

-- Feist

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“While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.”
“The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.”

Source : Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.192, Counterpoint Press
“This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.”
“I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253
“Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.”
“The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.”
“The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.”
“Men are often miserable in relationships because they feel their partner takes them for granted, or shows him no appreciation for the things he gets right.”

Source : "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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