"As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth."

-- Eugene Ionesco

#Believe Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
“People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them”
“"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.”

Source : Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing
“But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.”
“The early morning has gold in its mouth.”
“In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“It's always something”

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