"People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure."

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Source : David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.135, Image

David Steindl-Rast

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“Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.”
“I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.”
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....”
“Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.”
“My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.”

Source : Foresight Interview, foresight.org.
“A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?”

Source : Michelle Paver (2012). “The Outsiders (Gods and Warriors Book 1)”, p.27, Penguin UK
“Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.”

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