"The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down."

-- William James

#Responsibility Quotes #Self Quotes #Worry Quotes

“We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].”
“You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.”
“We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.”
“Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”
“The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All religions are true, because they are true in the hearts of all those who believe in them. What other kind of truth is there? In the past, the church has been harsh on those it deemed morally wrong or sinful. Today, we no longer judge. Like a loving father, we never condemn our children. Our church is big enough for heterosexuals and homosexuals, for the pro-life and the pro-choice! For conservatives and liberals, even communists are welcome and have joined us. We all love and worship the same God.”
“I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.”
“The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”

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