"We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency."

-- Sakyong Mipham

#Delight Quotes #Labor Quotes #Decency Quotes

“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”
“I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.”

Source : "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.
“I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.”
“I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.”
“The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.”
“Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.”
“A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.”
“To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.”

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