"Whatâ€™s so bad about addiction? I canâ€™t remember. Isnâ€™t it something about giving up your freedom? Isnâ€™t freedom an illusion?"

-- Jeffrey Steingarten

#Giving Up Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Remember Quotes

“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
“What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.”
“And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.”
“If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.”
“Logic is no answer to passion.”
“It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.”

Source : Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.192, Wakefield Press
“When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.”

Source : Owen Barfield, Jeanne Clayton Hunter, Thomas Kranidas (1993). “A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield”, p.152, SUNY Press
“The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.”

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