"Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god."

-- Suzy Kassem

#Children Quotes #Confused Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Don't you love it when people in school are like, â€œI'm a bad test takerâ€? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here[points to head], but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's.”
“I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.”
“I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.”
“Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.”
“All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.”
“The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.”
“I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.”
“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”

Source : Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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