"The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desiresâ€”the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery."

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Source : Derek Lin (2006). “Tao Te Ching”, p.40, SkyLight Paths Publishing

Derek Lin

#Anxiety Quotes #Desire Quotes #Want Quotes

“...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.”
“There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Insecurity is a waste of time.”
“A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 â€“ al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it â€¦ The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.”
“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”

Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”
“To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.”
“As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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