"I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation."

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Source : "Change". Booklet by Katherine Hunt, issuu.com. March 28, 2012.

William Irwin Thompson

#Pain Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.”
“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”
“We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!”
“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

Source : Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”
“Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry with me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves me or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.”
“Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.”

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