"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Music Quotes #Winter Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.”
“The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.”
“An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.”

Source : "Mozart, Newton and You?" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.
“It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.”

Source : "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.
“I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.”
“Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve their condition in life and slavery denies that to them.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”
“We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions”

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