"Peace is first of all the art of being."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Art Quotes #Complacency Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.”

Source : Anchee Min (2005). “Empress Orchid”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.”
“Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.”
“suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.”
“Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?”
“Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy.”
“Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.”
“There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.”

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