"We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness."

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Source : Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.13, Faber & Faber

Sarah Hall

#Sea Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Water Quotes

“When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best.”
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
“There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.”
“If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.”
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
“We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We need to hold onto that so that people can be told in the right way that they're going through these things [like tumors] early instead of discovering them late. Discovering important health news too late happens far too much.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.”

Source : Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen”, Shambhala Publications

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