"What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image...."

-- Joko Beck

#Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Couple Quotes

“One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.”
“Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.”
“It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.”
“I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.334, Macmillan
“There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.”

Source : " Torricelli sees vindication in ethics case" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2002.
“I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.”
“To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.”
“Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.”

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