"People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling."

-- Alberta Hunter

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Singing Quotes

“I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.”
“We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'”

Source : "Seeing is believing" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2004.
“It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.”
“You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.”

Source : Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Foundation of Mysticism”, p.31, BookBaby
“I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.”
“Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.”
“Memory implies that there is some static time and place you can go back to, whereas if you relive it by trying to put yourself back in that context, its more nuanced, less black and white. More traumatic, but also more exciting. When I knew I had to write about things that would be painful, I put off doing it for ages. But then eventually the fear of not doing it becomes greater than the fear of doing it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”

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