21st Century Courage
“I have always been interested in writing about happiness, in large part because it's extremely difficult to do. The French writer Henry de Montherlant famously said, "Le bonheur écrit à l'encre blanche sur des pages blanches." Happiness writes in white ink on white pages. In other words, you can't make it appear on the page. It's invisible. It doe
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“ Happiness writes in white ink on white pages.“ - Henry de Montherlant
- I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell from 1984
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“I had no idea, as I remembered the image of the spaceship wounding the moon's right eye, of what the next morning had in store for my own right eye.” Salman Rushdie from Knife
- “You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”
– Ram Dassfrom Part of The Dance by Tina Roth Eisenberg
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PULL THE THORNS FROM YOUR heart. Then you will see the rose gardens within you,” wrote Rumi,
from Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection by Sharon Salzberg
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- “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or... See more
from No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
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- Everyone and anyone can dance, because dancing is not only about performing. Dance is not even about being together, you can dance alone. Dance is not about dancing to music, you can dance in silence. So of course everybody can dance — and not only can, should .
from Ohad Naharin - The Talks by Emma Robertson
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