"Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water."

-- Matsuo Basho

#Water Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes #Woods Quotes

“Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.”
“What happens to other species also happens to us.”

Source : Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press
“There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Trials". Book by Ann Tusa and John Tusa, 1983.
“I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.”
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
“I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jul 29, 2011
“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.”
“Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.”

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