"No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory."

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Source : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Algernon Blackwood: Premium 11 Novels Collection (Jimbo, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Human Chord, The Centaur, The Promise of Air, The Garden of Survival, The Bright Messenger and more)”, p.718, e-artnow

Algernon Blackwood

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“Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Mar 17, 2016
“I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.”

Source : Arthur Ashe, Neil Amdur (1981). “Off the court”, Dutton Adult
“If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.”
“And I know how he feelsâ€”itâ€™s so good it hurts. I think Iâ€™m going to die from happiness. I think Iâ€™m going to die from pain. Time has stopped; time is racing.”
“Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.”
“though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?”
“Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.305, Wesleyan University Press
“Music is not just my passion it's my companion.”

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