"Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings."

-- Janelle Monae

#Song Quotes #Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I am trying to get closer to God.”
“I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.”
“If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?”
“Your bones are for life. Look after them and they will carry you far.”
“Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.”
“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
“Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone”

Source : Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.129, Oxford University Press
“Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.”

Source : " The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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