"You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy."

-- Ken Keyes Jr.

#Unhappy Quotes #Patterns Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.”
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.”
“Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.”
“Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.”

Source : "Roger Ballen and The Making of The Room". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2013.

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