"Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences."

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Source : FaceBook post by David Whyte from Jun 14, 2012

David Whyte

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“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”
“I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.”
“I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.”

Source : "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Jason Cole, bleacherreport.com. July 15, 2015.
“The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.”

Source : "Spotify founder: Future of music is access, not ownership" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2011.
“The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.”

Source : "On Directing: Interviews with Directors". Book editing by Gabriella Giannachi, Foreword, 1999.
“To tell you the truth, I've never been really good at learning other people's stuff. I've been playing since I was 11, and I never took lessons. I kind of learned through hit and miss. I had the patience just because I loved guitar so much.”
“After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.”
“A place without meaning is no place to be.”

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