"If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset."

-- David Brooks

#Morning Quotes #Sunset Quotes #Average Quotes

“As a private person, professionally I am invisible.”
“Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.”
“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”
“We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.”
“As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.”
“Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.”
“I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.”
“A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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