"the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy."

-- George Eliot

#Spring Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Growing Quotes

“The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose to be present, Pay attention to what has heart and meaning, Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.”
“The motivation is fighting the right fight. The type of fight I know I can fight. That's the motivation and showing the people the way Sugar Shane really fights.”
“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.”
“Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.”
“It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that.Â But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.”
“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”
“What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.”

Source : Yiyun Li (2017). “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life”, p.20, Random House
“My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.”

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