"The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were."

-- Robert W. Firestone

#Past Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Average Quotes

“To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.”
“For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.”
“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”
“There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.”
“... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1912). “Buttered side down: stories”
“Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.”
“Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.”
“A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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