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“It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.”

Turns Waiting Knowing Doors Finals Handle Jail Breakfast Not Knowing Death Row Reprieve

Author:Howard Wilkinson

“Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.”

People Writing May Art I Can Play Turns Space Rooms Doors Talent Expression Instruments Assuming Paint Handle Artistic Locked Living Room Artistic Expression Locked Doors

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.”

Heart Self Turns Waiting Rooms Doors Heard Flower Handle Heart Break Heart Breaking

Book:A Train of Powder

Source: A Train of Powder

“Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.”

Littles Made Sometimes Matter Bigs Seems Turns Pay Attention Harder Handle Little Things Big Things

Book:The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You

Source: The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You

“When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.”

People Religion Turns Handle

Author:Erich Fromm

“A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.”

Bigs Turns Democracy Majority Handle Minorities Resolve Organize Committees Defects Abolish Majority Rule

Book:The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government