"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Suffering Quotes #Needs Quotes #Live In The Present Quotes

“Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.”
“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2005). “Uglies”
“Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.”
“To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.”
“Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.”
“Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.”
“Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.”
“It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89

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