"Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.”
“You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.”
“Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.”

Source : Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.20, Random House
“No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.”
“We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race.”

Source : "Sir Stirling Moss: women lack the mental aptitude to compete in F1". www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.
“All my life I have been a nomad.”
“I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.”
“What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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