Jim Brule

“Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“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

“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

“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