"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

#Hard Work Quotes #Sweat Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”

Source : Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.110, Tuttle Publishing
“My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.”
“Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.”
“Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.”
“Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.”
“At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos. I know a lot more about being white than you know about being Indian.”

Source : "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.
“The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and, most tellingly like the same music as you - the only comparable experience these days would probably be an art museum - an actual place where you can stand and simply be surrounded by your heroes.”
“That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.”

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