"You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion."

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Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Henepola Gunaratana

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“Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.”
“In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.”
“I could walk and swim at 10 months old.”
“What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.
“People simply don't make eye contact anymore.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.”
“When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.”
“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.”

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