"You donâ€™t get it, do you?" I said. â€œItâ€™s not a question of â€˜what thenâ€™. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and thatâ€™s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So whatâ€™s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"

-- Haruki Murakami

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Guy Quotes

“We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvanaâ€”analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.”
“What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.”
“Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.”
“Go out there and thrill me.”
“A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.”
“I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
“To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.”

Source : Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.107, Discovery House
“It is no disgrace to rest a bit.”

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