"To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play."

-- Henri Nouwen

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“By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it... for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge -- the stalking and doing it right, successfully -- that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it.”
“In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.”

Source : "Jemaine Clement: 'I was in a public park replicating gay porn pics in my underpants'". Interview Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.
“You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.”
“I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella”
“Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “I Love a Broad Margin To My Life”, p.113, Random House
“In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.”
“There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.”
“Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.”

Source : Henning Mankell (2013). “Italian Shoes: A Novel”, p.11, The New Press

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