"Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace."

-- Jean Vanier

#Brother Quotes #Love You Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
“The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.”
“The greatest cunning is to have none at all.”
“I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.”
“When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.”
“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”
“In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.”

Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside”

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