"Today I don't want to live for, I want to live."

-- Hugh Prather

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“The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking survey of the varieties the latter of these beliefs has had, both within and outside the Christian tradition. Becoming Divine reconstructs an accessible and fascinating mosaic of this too-long neglected idea, utilizing figures as disparate as Orphic cultists, Augustine, and Nietzsche.”
“You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.”
“At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.”
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”

Source : "Song: 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' ('Double Fantasy')". 1980.
“I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.”
“It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.”
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”

Source : "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.
“The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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