"It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand."

-- Alec Waugh

#Hands Quotes #Desire Quotes #World Quotes

“When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.”

Source : Phillip Moffitt (2012). “Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind”, p.147, Penguin
“The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe...and yet the music goes on.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.37, Spiegel & Grau
“I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.”

Source : "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.
“I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.”
“Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.”
“Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.”
“Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.”

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