Dotzenrod Decorah Quotes & Sayings

Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment. — Pearl Zhu

You don't have to ask permission to take responsibility. — Ed Catmull

Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity. — Sarada Devi

I did not seem to have any special project to animate me. — Oliver Sacks

'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes. — Gretchen Rubin

What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven? — Neil Gaiman

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment. — Robert Coover

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. — Edmund Spenser

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized. — Peter DeFazio

Maybe we do better when we see each other simply as beloveds. — Melissa Broder