"Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become."

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

#Simple Quotes #Calming Quotes #Uncomplicated Quotes

“Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.”

Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.
“I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a singleâ€”and singularâ€”piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.”
“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2001). “San Francisco Poems”, p.2, City Lights Books
“Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.”
“Knowing the right questions is better than having all the right answers.”
“The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.”
“We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people. Like, take the law that says you can't go into someone else's houseI have a house, so, hey, I like that law. The guy without a house-what's he think of it? Stay out in the rain, schnook.Thatâ€™s what the law means to him”
“Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 58), 1895.

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