"For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners."

-- Ayn Rand

#Running Quotes #Joy Quotes #Religion Quotes

“It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.”
“In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?”
“The more we love, the more love we have to offer. So it is with God's love for us. It is inexhaustible.”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.136, WaterBrook
“I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.”

Source : "The Energy Is One: An Interview With Hiromi Uehara". Interview with Wayne Zade, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 20, 2003.
“I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.”
“People still call meÂ maâ€™amÂ on the phone, and itâ€™s just part of life now. Iâ€™m not even phased by itâ€¦ Going through DriveThrus is always fun, because itâ€™s always so shocking when they see me. Itâ€™d just be kind of like, â€˜Thank you maâ€¦Â woah!!Â Woah, sorry about that!â€™”
“Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it.”
“As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.18, New York Review of Books

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