"A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife."

-- Hualing Nieh Engle

#Cutting Quotes #Knives Quotes #Taste Quotes

“Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]”
“We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.”

Source : Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.53, Broadway Books
“If alcohol is legal, I don't see why people still have a ban on marijuana...”
“When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.”
“A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.”
“Put your money where your mouth is.”
“One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.”
“You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life.Â Just be you, then wait.”

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