"To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life."

-- Duane Elgin

#Mean Quotes #Simple Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.”
“Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.”
“If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Apr 11, 2013
“I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.”
“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.”
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
“I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.268
“The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.”

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