"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."

-- Robert Bly

#Obsession Quotes #Calamity Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.”

Source : "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.
“If you can't worship at the back, you can't worship at the front”
“Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.”
“I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.”

Source : William Hamilton Maxwell (1833). “Stories of Waterloo”, p.4
“There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.”
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
“Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave.”
“To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.”

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