"Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Spiritual Quotes #Heart Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes

“We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.”
“Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.”
“One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.”
“My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.17, Theatre Communications Group
“In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.”

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