"I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?"

-- Katrina Kenison

#Simple Quotes #Hands Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.”
“I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.”
“True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.”
“The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.”
“I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.”

Source : "A revealing sit-down with Courteney Cox". Interview with Ann Oldenburg, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 9, 2003.
“I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.”
“I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.”

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