"But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Humanity Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Battle Quotes

“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.”
“Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.”
“Come, let us make love deathless.”

Source : Herbert Trench (1901). “Deirdre Wed and Other Poems”
“To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.”
“These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.”
“Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.”

Source : "John Maeda: Innovation is born when art meets science". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.
“I canâ€™t imagine it now, but I mustâ€™ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby donâ€™t just get itself born bad, do it?”

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