"The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole."

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Source : Peter Block (2009). “Community: The Structure of Belonging”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Peter Block

#Caring Quotes #Self Quotes #Community Quotes

“I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.”
“Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.”
“We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.”
“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.”
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.”
“In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind.”

Source : J. Allan Hobson (2002). “The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness”, p.29, MIT Press
“I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices”

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