"I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges."

-- Osip Mandelstam

#Judging Quotes #Woods Quotes #Bandits Quotes

“I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.”
“Life without risks is not worth living.”
“The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.”
“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.”

Source : Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.16, Vintage
“The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.”
“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.”
“A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!”
“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.”

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