"If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good."

-- Antonio Porchia

“Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.”
“You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.”
“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.”
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”

Source : Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”
“...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.”
“When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.”
“All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.”

Source : Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.170, Island Press
“Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.”

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