"If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three."

-- Robert Motherwell

#Block Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Two Quotes

“There is no safer. Thereâ€™s not even safe, never has been.”
“We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”
“There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.”
“There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.”
“And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.”
“Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.”
“True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.”
“In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.”

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