"When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity."

-- Adrienne Rich

#Notebook Quotes #Memories Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”
“When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.”
“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”
“And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.”

Source : William Martin (2011). “Citizen Washington”, p.638, Macmillan
“Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine”
“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.”
“I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.”
“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

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