"If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it."

-- Richard Rohr

“Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.”

Source : "MythBusters (Cell Phone Destruction/Silicone Breasts/CD-ROM Shattering)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. October 3, 2003.
“Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.”
“Sandeep Jauhar specializes in peeling back the veneer, revealing the discomfiting truths of todayâ€™s medical world. He is unafraid to dig deeply and honestly, both within himself and within the medical profession. Doctored raises critical questions that twenty-first-century medicine must answer if it is to meet the needs of its patients as well as of its practitioners.”
“Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can go on in the name of remaining likeable, but I don't find that an artistically interesting path to take.”

Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.
“Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.”
“Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.”
“The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.”

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