"Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room."

-- Janette Rallison

#Needs Quotes #Fickle Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelingsâ€¦”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.101, Petrarca Press
“I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.”
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
“This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.”
“The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.”
“Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.”
“Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.”
“I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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