"For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought."

-- Milan Kundera

#Essence Quotes #Flames Quotes #Body Quotes

“I have a new saying, what I see in Vegas, I am telling everybody.”
“We believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything.”
“I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.”
“Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.”
“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”
“I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.”
“Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.”
“Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.”

Source : Song: Love To Be Loved, Album: Us, 1992

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