"Its's just that... this is the realest thing I've had in a long time and it scares me a bit."

-- Jessica Sorensen

#Long Quotes #Scare Quotes

“My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.”
“No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.”
“I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.”

Source : Frank Wilczek (2009). “The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers”, p.175, Penguin UK
“It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.”
“Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.”
“If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.”
“The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.25, Penguin
“I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.”

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