"Think... of the world you carry within you."

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Rainer Maria Rilke

#Healing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. â€¦ And an enormous debt to boot!”
“The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.”
“Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.”

Source : "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.”
“The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate with the French Surrealists, many of whom by the 40s and 50s were part of the French communist party apparatus. Many Surrealists eventually argued for instrumentalizing art for political ends. Debord countered, "I don't want to put poetry in the service of revolution. I want to put revolution in the service of poetry".”
“The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.282, A&C Black
“When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.”
“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.”

Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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