"We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Beautiful Quotes #Dark Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I feel like real thoughts and emotions involve the whole being. And they also outstrip little personal quirks, and they outstrip biography. You end up on a really special, universal, shared terrain in those experiences. I think it's available to absolutely every single thing made of flesh and blood.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“People ask me: â€˜What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.”
“Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”
“Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.”
“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.”

Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.
“Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.”

Source : 1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.

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