"Love where there is no reason to love"

-- Sangharakshita

“Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.”

Source : "A Patchwork Sampler". Book by Marjorie Anderson, December 2010.
“Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture”
“Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things.”
“Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“History is not history unless it is the truth.”
“There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.”
“You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.”
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”

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