"The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning."

-- John Vaillant

#Fall Quotes #Piano Quotes #Impact Quotes

“Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.”

Source : Darren Main (2002). “Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic”, p.173, BookBaby
“I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.”
“Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.”
“If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.”
“The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.”
“The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.”
“In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.7, Beacon Press
“I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there at night. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad thing but if it's abused obviously it's a bad thing.”

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