"The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings."

-- Howard Zinn

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“If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.”
“Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.”
“We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.”
“I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.106, Thomas Nelson
“My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.”
“There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.”
“When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.”
“Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.”

Source : Source: sjworld.net

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