"I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions."

-- Mark Kozelek

#Praise Quotes #Reactions Quotes #Process Quotes

“Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.”
“Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease. Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.”

Source : B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.”
“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”

Source : Miriam Toews (2013). “Swing Low”, p.57, Faber & Faber
“The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.”
“All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand be inspected, whether dream or vision be seen, whether marking of entrails or mad inspiration be consulted, there must be a Celestial Figure first erected, by the means of whole indications, together with the conjectures of Signs and Similitudes, they endeavour to find out the truth of what is desired.”
“Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.”
“Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.”

Source : Susan Brownmiller (2013). “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape”, p.577, Open Road Media

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