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Kathryn Minshew

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“For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.”
“To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.”
“Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...”

Source : David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.61, Vintage
“It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.”
“Censorship is the height of vanity.”
“Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.”
“Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.”
“Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.”

Source : Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing

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