"Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.”
“The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.”

Source : "An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford".
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”

Source : Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 2 Mar. 1988
“Surround yourself with people who are the ketchup to your french fries-they make you a better version of yourself. Yes french fries are amazing on their own, but combined with ketchup they are a force. Spend time with people who bring out your true flavors, but don't overpower you.”
“So of course that was the moment my motherboard decided to do a short internal scan, throw up its hands, and screech, â€œDear Lawd, a VAMPIRE has taken mah blood!â€ and initiate a general shutdown.”
“When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.”
“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud ofﬁce to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.”
“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.1, Northwestern University Press

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