"The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me."

-- Simon Schama

#Depressing Quotes #Golf Quotes #Decay Quotes

“Before I started making music I felt like I couldn't affect anything in the world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.”
“I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace in Her maternal goodness; showing that the Catholic Church has always, and with justice, put all her hope and trust in the Mother of God. And truly the Immaculate Virgin, chosen to be the Mother of God and thereby associated with Him in the work of man's salvation, has a favour and power with Her Son greater than any human or angelic creature has ever obtained, or ever can gain”
“One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.”
“For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.”
“Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.”

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.
“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]”

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