"I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators"

-- Brother Roger

#Strong Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Trying Quotes

“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
“But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.”
“I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.”

Source : 1974 Aroused by Books.
“Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.”
“A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.”
“What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press
“Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.”

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