"The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about."

-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Desire Quotes #True Happiness Quotes #Ashamed Quotes

“When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.”
“A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 24, 2015
“I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.”
“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.”
“All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight.”
“I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello.”
“My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.”
“I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.”

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