"There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention."

-- Eugene Kennedy

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“The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.”
“Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.”

Source : Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books
“The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.”
“Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.”
“There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe - a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication.”

Source : Ervin Laszlo (1999). “The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science”, Element Books, Limited
“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”
“I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.”
“You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.”

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