"Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this."

-- James Martineau

#Prayer Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Bereavement Quotes

“When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it come in, and let it go out. It will not stay long. When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything. It appears as if something comes from outside your mind, but actually it is only the waves of your mind, and if you are not bothered by the waves, gradually they will become calmer and calmer.”
“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.”
“God is what's good in me.”

Source : JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”
“I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.”
“I didn't really do too much television. I really went straight into film.”
“The only way to find your voice is to use it. Itâ€™s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.”

Source : Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.21, Workman Publishing
“There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going to be about that, but it has to have that journey; I have to learn something, I have to end up somewhere I didn't expect to be, otherwise, I don't think it's painting.”

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