"We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again."

-- Nhat Hanh

#War Quotes #Light Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.”
“I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.”
“I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.”
“The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.”
“A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.”

Source : Giuseppe Verdi (2016). “Messa da Requiem: Critical Edition Study Score”, p.24, University of Chicago Press
“The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since.”

Source : "Q&A: Five Questions for Skylar Astin". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2013.
“When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1998). “The natural genesis, or, second part of A book of the beginnings: containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace”, Black Classic Pr

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