"While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance."

-- Shantideva

#Buddhist Quotes #Self Quotes #Poison Quotes

“Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.”

Source : Chungliang Al Huang (2009). “Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life”, p.9, Bantam
“I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.”
“I am an ordinary person.”

Source : "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
“I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.”
“For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books
“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.77, Vintage
“You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.”

Source : Joyelle McSweeney (2007). “Flet: A Novel”
“I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.”

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