"All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see."

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Mark Nepo

#Dark Quotes #Cracks Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.”
“Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.”
“Friendship is communion.”
“Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.”

Source : Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton
“There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.”
“There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.”
“This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (2017). “Star Maker”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing
“If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.”

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