"Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?"

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Life Quotes #Hero Quotes #Character Quotes

“Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.”

Source : "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.
“The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.”
“Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.”
“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

Source : "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.
“If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.”
“Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people”
“One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.”
“Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.”

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