"I always thought that I was me â€” but no, I was you and never knew it."

-- Rumi

“Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.”
“We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.”

Source : "Abbott faces questions over comments in Sri Lanka". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 18, 2013.
“Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.”
“There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.”
“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

Source : "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.
“King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.”
“Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.”
“Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.”

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