"Only your friends steal your books."

-- Voltaire

#Book Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.”
“Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke.”

Source : "The Ethical Brain". Book by Michael Gazzaniga, 2005.
“With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.”
“I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.”
“I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?”

Source : "Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch Talk BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Auditioning without Seeing the Script, Working with Emma Thopmson, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 12, 2013.
“The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.”
“It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.”

Source : Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“Happiness arises when you relax into the reality of your natural condition. The secrets of the universe are already in you as you. Seeking anything implies that you don't have it; every search for the idea of enlightenment leads you further away from it. The magnificance of life does not await you - it actually is you.”

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