"42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those jobs just in time to start dying instead. Don't be one of those people. There's a difference between living, and just surviving. Do something that you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It really is that simple. And that hard."

-- John Connolly

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“[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.”
“Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.”

Source : Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.159, Rodale
“If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.”
“Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.”
“What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”
“That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.”
“It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.”

Source : "Games for Actors and non-Actors". Book by Augusto Boal, p. xxvi, 1992.
“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”

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