"In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me."

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Source : Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.82, Souvenir Press

Julia Cameron

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“When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.”
“Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster.”

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“If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.”

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“If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”
“We're not cameras, we're artists.”
“Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .”
“Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don't overdo it. Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance.”
“I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.”

Source : "The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans". Book by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63, 1920.

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