"I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost in mist and fog I rest happily in this place At dusk the tree shadows are low I look into my mind A white lotus emerges from the dark mud"

-- Hanshan

#Beautiful Quotes #Dark Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”

Source : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.”

Source : "Q&A: Jeff Garlin on Getting Arrested, the Chicago Cubs, and the Future of Curb Your Enthusiasm". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 12, 2013.
“So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.”

Source : Susan Cooper (2010). “Silver on the Tree”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
“When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.”

Source : "Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.
“Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.”
“I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything”
“The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.”

Source : USA Today, August 11, 1988.
“[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.”

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