Jim Brule

“When facing authoritarian regimes, nonviolent movements are ten times as likely as violent ones to result in democratic change.”
― David Jay, Relationality: How Moving from Transactional to Transformational Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World

“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

“Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work. Reading is often seen as a passive act: we lie back and let writers pipe joy into our brains. But this is wrong. When we experience a story, our minds are churning, working hard.”
― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all the time. – Rumi”
― Nancy Mellon, Healing Storytelling: The Art of Imagination and Storymaking for Personal Growth