"We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here...Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really."

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Source : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

Brad Warner

#Believe Quotes #Choices Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.”
“There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.”

Source : D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.72, Baker Academic
“Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.”

Source : Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.30, Da Capo Press
“Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”
“I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.”
“I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.”
“I try to follow certain rules. Nothing in Ã‰lysÃ©e Palace should become habitual, because routine lends one a deceptive feeling of security. You begin not noticing certain things and lose your focus on what's important. Uncertainty and change keep you attentive. This place and, to a certain extent, my office, help me avoid developing habits.”
“The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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