"As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it."

-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Childhood Quotes #Age Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.”
“The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.”
“The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.”
“When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.”
“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
“With great respect and love, NOW the blessings of Yoga instruction are offered.”
“You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of their family, for material prosperity, or to recover from illness. But this way of practicing faith only leads to a dead end. Buddha images should serve as inspirations to cultivate the infinite loving kindness latent in the buddha within us.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.134
“You can never rise above the light you look up to.”

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