"Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives."

-- Ruth Ozeki

#Flow Quotes #Wake Up Quotes #Universe Quotes

“Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs.”
“I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself,”
“Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.”
“My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.”
“People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. Itâ€™s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if youâ€™re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.”
“Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.”
“Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.”

Source : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.798, Macmillan
“You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.”

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