"I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Mind Quotes #Important Quotes #Routine Quotes

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”
“For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?”
“At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.”

Source : Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.31, Northwestern University Press
“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.”
“Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.”
“I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.”
“Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.”
“There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we donâ€™t live in a democracy. Thatâ€™s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, heâ€™s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.”

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