"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."

-- James Joyce

#Art Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #History Quotes

“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”
“Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.”
“I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.”
“Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.”

Source : "Who Said That?: More than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations". Book by George Sweeting, p. 101, 1995.
“Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.”
“I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.”
“The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawudâ€™s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangirâ€™s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout â€“ some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.”
“To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.”

Source : Prentice Mulford (2015). “The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection: “New Thought” Studies, Novels & Memoirs: Thoughts Are Things, The God In You, Your Forces and How to Use Them, Life By Land and Sea, Swamp Angel and more (Wisdom & Empowerment Series)”, p.441, e-artnow

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