"The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow."

-- Diogenes

#Gratitude Quotes #Judgement Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence...”
“The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.”
“There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
“How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.”
“A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.”
“I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.”
“God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.”
“Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.”

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