"Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with."

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Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

Alexei Panshin

#Lying Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Self Quotes

“When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.”
“The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?”
“Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jada Pinkett Smith from Jul 16, 2013
“The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.”
“Apparently, they believe they're gods.”

Source : "Defiant Uber rideshare launches in Portland, with City Hall promising to 'throw the book' at company" by Joseph Rose, www.oregonlive.com. December 05, 2014.
“The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'”
“Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christâ€™s blood, Christâ€™s gospel, Christâ€™s church, and Christâ€™s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays â€˜bottled upâ€™, confined to the historical skins of Palestine.”
“What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.”

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