"Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Thomas Metzinger

#Writing Quotes #Chocolate Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.”

Source : Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.36, Shambhala Publications
“But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.”
“I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.”

Source : InsideHoops.com Interview, www.insidehoops.com. December 12, 2004.
“The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.”
“E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.”
“A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.”
“It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.”
“To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.”

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