"The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three."

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Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage

Jenny Offill

#Buddhist Quotes #Moving Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Stars today are just masturbation images.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You donâ€™t. And mend what Iâ€™ve broken.”
“I pay our nanny more than Im earning.”
“All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.”
“Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age”
“Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.”
“Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.”
“The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.”

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