"Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing."

-- Sheldon Vanauken

#Gay Quotes #Mind Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.”
“Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.”
“The interchange of information is creating a new paradigm for the energy efficiency market”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.
“I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.”
“Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.”
“We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.”
“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.”

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