"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."

-- Joseph Brodsky

#Change Quotes #Believe Quotes #Men Quotes

“Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.”

Source : Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”
“Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.”

Source : "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson, (p. 292), 1943.
“It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.”
“There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”
“What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.”

Source : "Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way". Book by Boze Hadleigh, 2007.
“It takes two hands to clap.”
“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage
“Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!”

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