"The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel."

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Source : "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

Charles de Lint

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“With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.”
“Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.”
“I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].”
“It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.”
“Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.”

Source : Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”
“The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd
“To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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