"The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory."

-- Noah Levine

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“Determination doesn't make it easier, it makes it possible.”
“On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.”
“Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.”
“She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because 'the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.'”
“I am a man who does not exist for others.”
“For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown
“The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.”
“And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.”

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