"Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude."

-- Charles Robert Maturin

#Cells Quotes #Voice Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”
“Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to...”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.187, Routledge
“Be your kid's collaborative partner, but also be a collaborative partner with the folks at school. Schools can be pretty unilateral too. Show them you know how to collaborate. Show them this is not about power. Let them know detentions and suspensions and paddling don't solve the problems that are affecting kids' lives. Those problems can be identified and solved but not by being punitive.”
“Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.”
“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”
“And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.”
“A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.”
“Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away.”

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