"Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?"

-- Ai Weiwei

#Lying Quotes #Choices Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, be still, and see with your mind's eye. There you find the clarity you seek.”
“We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it, in ways we've never had to do before. We now have the job of forging our own evolutionary destiny, and being prime agents of the process of evolution here on Earth.”
“a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.”

Source : Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press
“My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks...”
“I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.”
“We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?”
“If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.”

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