"I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked thatâ€”this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively."

-- James Turrell

#Grandmother Quotes #Light Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music”
“I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.”

Source : Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.345, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
“Redd laughed. "The lovely thing about being here," she said, gesturing at the maze, "is that I'm able to immagine your imagination powerless. Ah, if only that were the case on the outside. But enough chitchat. If you're going to die--which you are--I'm sure you'd like to get it over with." --The Looking Glass Wars”
“Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.”
“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.”
“Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.”
“Truth is in things, and not in words.”
“Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.”

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