"Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Baby Quotes #Judging Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.”
“Desires are nourished by delays.”
“My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.”
“The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...”

Source : "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.
“Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.”
“Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.”

Source : Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.34, Insight Meditation Center
“People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.”
“The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.”

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