"The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one."

-- Marion Bartoli

#Father Quotes #Hands Quotes #Missing Quotes

“A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.”

Source : Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult
“Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, thereâ€™s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesnâ€™t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.”
“Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.”
“Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality....”
“True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.”

Source : Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps”, p.49, Shambhala Publications
“When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.”
“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another”
“Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.”

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