"As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind."

-- Keith Johnstone

#Children Quotes #Eye Quotes #Perception Quotes

“I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world. From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!”
“I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.”
“I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.”

Source : Michael Buckley (2012). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Nine: The Council of Mirrors”, p.90, Abrams
“You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.”
“There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.10, Adam, Stevenson
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.”
“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”
“The intuition of free will gives us the truth.”

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