"Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere"

-- Benoit Mandelbrot

“The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press
“The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.”
“I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.”
“Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.”
“A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.”
“Nine people can't make a baby in a month.”
“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”
“If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.”

Source : John Woolman (1838). “A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel”, p.314

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