"Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose."

-- Christine Comaford-Lynch

#Fear Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #You Choose Quotes

“Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?”
“I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.”
“For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.”
“Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.”
“If we build the people, they'll build the business”
“Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.”
“One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.”

Source : Iain M. Banks (2012). “The Hydrogen Sonata: A Culture Novel”, p.230, Hachette UK
“We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.”

Source : Annie Leonard (2010). “The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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