"If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation."

-- Stewart D. Friedman

#Zero Quotes #Balance Quotes #Equations Quotes

“I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.”
“To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.”
“And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.”
“I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.”
“A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.”
“Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.”

Source : Harry Allen Overstreet (1931). “The Enduring Quest: A Search for a Philosophy of Life”
“Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.”

Source : Song: Gypsy, Album: She Wolf, 2009
“Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child cannot be active in his own generation, so a man cannot be active in his own regeneration. The heart is shut against Christ: man cannot open it, only God can do it by his grace.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.144

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