"Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is."

-- Joko Beck

#Self Quotes #Joy Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I don't get much sauciness, I'm too old for saucy now, but back in the day I think there were a few marriage proposals. And I do use the fact women approach me as a chance to chat them up. They never seem to mind too much.”
“Support your libraries... or else!”
“The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.”
“At the end of the day, you can decide whether you want to be an employee with a great attendance record, getting promoted to ever better titles and working on interesting projects - or whether you want to attempt to do something spectacular - this be or do should be a question you never stop asking yourself - for the next 20 years, and beyond.”
“I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.”
“What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.”

Source : "He's a really good guy". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2007.
“The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.”

Source : Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1972). “Dominant Mammal: The Biology of Human Destiny”
“Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought”

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