"New York is the great stone desert."

-- Israel Zangwill

#New York Quotes #Desert Quotes #Stones Quotes

“I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.”
“Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone elseâ€™s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?”
“The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.”
“Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”
“If you follow every dream, you might get lost.”

Source : Song: The Painter, Album: Prairie Wind, 2005
“I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.81, Granta Books
“When we give up our goals and concentrate diligently on the practices of our lives, we increase self-mastery and move toward the invisible universe, toward Spirit, to receive the wonders and miracles the universe has to offer us.”

Source : Gerald Epstein (2008). “Kabbalah for Inner Peace: Imagery and Insights to Guide You Through Your Day”, p.45, Gerald Epstein
“When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.”

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