"This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire."

-- Rumi

#Fire Quotes #Light Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.”
“If the Russian word " perestroika " has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.”
“What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?”
“When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.”
“Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.”
“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so theyâ€™ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.”

Source : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.182, Beacon Press
“It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.”
“Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande”

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