"My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me."

-- Mahalia Jackson

#Hands Quotes #Feet Quotes #Body Quotes

“Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.”

Source : Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.9, Ravenio Books
“The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.”

Source : Source: www.psychologyart.com
“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.”

Source : "Teach arts and sciences together". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2002.
“I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.”
“Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.
“I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.”
“Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.....”
“Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.”

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