"If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted."

-- Mata Amritanandamayi

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Italian Painters of the Renaissance”
“Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.”
“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.”
“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”
“Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.”

Source : "Hillary Clinton deputy shares career advice" by Colleen Leahey, fortune.com. May 24, 2012.
“For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.”
“We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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