"I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

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“You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.”
“In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.”

Source : Barbara Marx Hubbard (1993). “The revelation: our crisis is a birth”
“We deal with our mind from morning till evening and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.”

Source : "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. Januart 23, 2015.
“If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.”
“In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.”
“We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.148, Da Capo Press
“I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.”
“I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job as a director is to cast them well and to understand what they need on set to bring the material to life.”

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