"All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life."

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Source : Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.46, Bantam

Wayne Muller

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“You can never have too much butter.”
“It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.”
“You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood...”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.54, Cosimo Classics
“I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.”
“If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?”

Source : Lady Gregory, Lucy McDiarmid, Maureen Waters (1995). “Selected writings”, Penguin USA
“You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.”
“Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.”
“Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.”

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