"I want to perform an unnatural act."

-- Lenny Bruce

“Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.”
“The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasnâ€™t been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Threeâ€™s Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.”
“Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.”
“If pain is truly love, for my family I die.”
“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.
“Freedom is not enough.”
“You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.”
“The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.”

Source : "On Living Merrily and Trusting Good Verses" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

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