"We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stoneâ€”crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisionsâ€”one has to live with them, and we try."

-- Ekaterina Sedia

#Regret Quotes #Skulls Quotes #Decision Quotes

“One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.”

Source : "Leonard Mlodinow On Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior". Interview with Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.
“I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up, without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away, and might never be reported missing.”
“It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.”
“Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?”
“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.”
“Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.”
“When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.”
“My life was changed in one breath from God.”

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