"Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that."

-- Joko Beck

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“Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!”
“The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.”

Source : 1974 A MusingMorley,'France and the French'.
“The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.”
“The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.”
“Time is not so all-erasing as we think.”

Source : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.177, Sheba Blake Publishing
“When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?”
“First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.”
“The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.”

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