"I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States."

-- Janet Reno

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #United States Quotes

“Events tend to recur in cycles.”
“I am quite a private person.”

Source : "Club class". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2005.
“Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.”

Source : Rupert Spira (2016). “Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness”, New Harbinger Publications
“My art is not an answer, it is a question.”
“Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.”
“I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.”
“I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.”
“Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

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