"The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights."

-- Phyllis Bottome

#Thinking Quotes #Creative Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.”
“I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.”
“The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.”
“When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.”
“Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.”

Source : John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company
“Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, people lose their desire to attack back because they can see the human ignorance leading to these attacks; instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to transcend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.”
“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
“I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.”

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