"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."

-- George Carlin

#Mean Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Monkeys Quotes

“Inertia is the death of creativity”
“I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they dream exactly the way we dream, and about everything in their lives--that they have good dreams and bad dreams in almost direct proportion, as we do, to whether their lives have been more good than bad. Unfortunately, because the majority of animals have it so much tougher than we do, I believe that the majority of dreams, except in the most fortunate petdom, are bad.”

Source : Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”
“Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.”

Source : Chogyam Trungpa (1991). “The Heart of the Buddha”, p.29, Shambhala Publications
“Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.”
“Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?”

Source : Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.390, Atlantic Books
“An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?”

Source : Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)
“...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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