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“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”

Thinking Way Life Sometimes Use Pain Beautiful Joy Fall Sound Water Prayer Silence Sky Praying Happenings Very Good Crowds Odd Over You Fourth Floats Rockets July Very Beautiful

Author:Frederick Buechner

“The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.”

May Pain Easy Sound Possibility Enlightenment Illusion Opposites Staying Joyful Harsh Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.”

“Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.”

Men Reality Pain Sound Church Lines Instant Repeats Colour Etc Yellow Temperature One Line

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”

Pain Joy Spirit Left Sound Loses Hurt Our Lives Growing Risk Tree Crazy Childhood Dog Cry Wind Calling Okay Paint Curious Climbs Bike Wipe Vigorous Joy And Pain Hedgerows

Author:Peter Heller

“Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.”

Wells Hands Might Pain Sound Pleasure Results Responsibility Communication Scientist Chiefs Therapy Injury Clapping

Book:The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

Source: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!”

Pain Sound Attention Music Streets Endless Sat Italian Opera Sheer Anguish Torment Obliged Crowded Solace Barren Inexplicable Crowded Streets

Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.”

World Feelings Pain Sound Impossible Color Wall Drug Sight Glasses Complexity Climbs Explosions Brilliance Feeling Pain

Book:Journey

Source: Journey

“They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.”

Writing Able Pain Song Sound Like Me T Pain

Author:T-Pain

“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”

Eye Pain Sound Ears Lips Tongue Mood Tales Pale Accents Pathways Grandeur

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”