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When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else. — Anne Lamott

A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ... — Dorothy Bryant

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Those who wait for the right time to act on their life are doing nothing. — Santosh Kalwar

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. — Charles Darwin

In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one ... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one. — Mahmud Shabistari

I'm standing right in front of you and you can't even see me! -Quinn — Corrine Jackson

This is a thing he can do. He can make himself into a gift. And what it makes me feel is humble. The — Alexis Hall

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. — Lord David Cecil

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it. — Graeme Le Saux