"Your life doesnâ€™t happen in any kind of order. Events donâ€™t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. Itâ€™s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common."

-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Order Quotes #Water Quotes #Wish Quotes

“The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“People have always been animals when it comes to sex. But since the Internet, it's become really out of control, in my opinion.”
“A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.”
“As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.”

Source : P. N. Elrod (2011). “The Vampire Files, Volume Three”, p.384, Penguin
“I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon,”
“Accustom yourself to tireless activity.”

Source : "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras, p. 23, 2005.
“When grief is deepest, words are fewest.”
“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”

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