"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."

-- Andy Goldsworthy

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“We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.148, Da Capo Press
“If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.”
“You better give your soul to the Lord, because the rest of your scrawny ass, will belong to me!”
“In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train”

Source : Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press
“I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.”
“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”
“In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.”
“Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.”

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