"I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we canâ€™t change."

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Source : Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.82, Oneworld Publications

Simon Van Booy

#Memories Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have my way of doing things.”
“The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.”
“The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.”
“The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.”
“Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land”
“Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.”
“The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.”

Source : "Sustainable Grilling With Barton Seaver". Interview with Esther Sung, www.epicurious.com. May 21, 2013.
“This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.”

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