"How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between."

-- Anais Nin

#Stress Quotes #Burning Quotes #Birth Quotes

“We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.”

Source : Paul Robeson (2001). “The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939”, Wiley
“Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.”
“Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.”

Source : "Freedom of Speech: The Price Can Be High" by Sohaib Awan, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 04, 2012.
“My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.”
“Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,”
“I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.”

Source : "Interview: Amy Weber interview". www.askmen.com.
“Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward”
“Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.”

Source : B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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