"Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help."

-- Thomas Keating

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“I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things are way more dispersed, and way more de-centralised than they were twenty years ago. I don't really feel like people talk about my generation the way people would talk about Generation X in their early 90's when Nirvana blew up. I feel like there was an easier, more coherent narrative to find, than you can now.”
“I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.”
“To be a person is to have a story to tell.”
“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
“Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
“I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.”
“How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan
“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.”

Source : "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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