"Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art."

-- Gabrielle Roth

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“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.”
“My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.”
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.”
“We must recognize that the reality of another's fear is not to be estimated by our own attitude toward the object of the fear, but by the attitude of the person who fears. It is the fear, not the object, which is the reality.”
“I am pathetically law-abiding.”
“Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.”

Source : "Phylicia Rashad Talks Good Deeds and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
“The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.”

Source : "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.

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