Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
Variant: It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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(1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)
Context: Do you know what humanity is, what the word "human" means? The word human where I come from - which is the enlightened state - means suffering. So when you say you're a human being, you're saying you're a suffering being. And I say you have to get rid of your suffering and then be being. Enlightenment is the state of being which I am, this moment and every moment. So I'm not suffering. But humanity loves to suffer. People love to suffer because they love to get excited with their feelings. All you've got to do is get rid of your feelings, which are always negative. Why not get rid of the whole lot of it, now? That means you don't know feelings and then you don't know negativity, and then you'd be in love, and then you would love everybody by not loving anybody in particular as a feeling. That's the state of enlightenment.
“It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.”
Edward Snowden
(1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor
Penguin Books 2015 edition, page 45.
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“To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.”
Leo Tolstoy
(1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: The First Step (1892), Ch. VII
Suman Pokhrel
(1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span>
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