"When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time"

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Dean Cavanagh

#Inspiration Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Moments Quotes

“In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity. . . . How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?"”
“Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world.”
“Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.170, University of Oklahoma Press
“Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.”
“But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.”
“There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.”
“What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?”
“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”

Source : Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.158, Vintage

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