"People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind."

-- Carl Jung

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“No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character, not our orthodoxy. Whether we, our neighbor, or God is the judge, absolutely the only value of our religious life to ourselves or to anyone is what it fits us for and enables us to do.”
“You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.”

Source : "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldnâ€™t pull the trigger?”
“If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.”
“My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.”
“The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature”
“If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.”
“All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business heâ€™d ever witnessed wakingâ€”the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.30, Granta Books

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