"The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Sympathy Quotes #Voice Quotes #May Quotes

“Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.”

Source : Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications
“The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity”
“I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and Iâ€™m glad I learned from it.”
“If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.”
“It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.”
“Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.”
“Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...”
“River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.”

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