"I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs."

-- Ben Gibbard

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“Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.”
“We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.”
“When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.”

Source : Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage
“If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what they are doing in the world instead of chastened for not doing more at church? What if church felt more like a way station than a destination? What if the churchâ€™s job were to move people out the door instead of trying to keep them in, by convincing them that God needed them more in the world than in the church?”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.222, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.”
“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?”

Source : Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.85, Picador Australia
“We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.”

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