"A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers."

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Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

Patrick Kavanagh

#Giving Quotes #Listening Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesnâ€™t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it”
“What we experience in Colombia is fratricide, we fight ourselves and it demonstrates the priority of hatred over peace and reconciliation.”
“I donâ€™t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.”
“He hadnâ€™t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadnâ€™t even been the first sheâ€™d loved. Heâ€™d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. Heâ€™d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadnâ€™t drowned.”
“Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.”
“There's not enough of me left over.”
“People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth and in adulthood-intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned from their own experience.”

Source : "The Roots of Violence" by Alice Miller, www.alice-miller.com. 2015.
“There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for the mind to move into many different directions, while at the same time attempting to return to a centered, relaxed state of mind.”

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