"Whatever you are looking for can only be found inside of you."

-- Rumi

“Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.”

Source : Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”
“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

Source : Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”
“Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is so fugitive and unsettled that he will not stand to the verdict of his own Faculties, one can no more fasten any thing upon him, than he can write in the water, or tye knots in the wind.”
“My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.”
“I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.”
“Art disturbs, science reassures.”
“You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.”

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