"Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been."

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Source : Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.3, Anchor

Stephen Levine

#Suffering Quotes #Might Quotes #Holding On Quotes

“You said I was your number-one pick." "And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.”
“I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?”
“Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing.”

Source : "Yvette Cooper: Why I'm Not Standing for Labour Leader – This Time". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2010.
“I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.”
“With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the â€˜otherâ€™ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.”
“Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.”
“The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.”
“I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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