"So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth."

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Source : At his execution, on being asked which way he preferred to lay his head, in William Stebbing 'Sir Walter Raleigh' (1891) ch. 30

Walter Raleigh

#Heart Quotes #Way Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!”
“Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.”
“God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.”
“It seems that laughter needs an echo.”
“Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.”
“To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Oct 17, 2014
“The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.”

Source : "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.
“I have candy all the time. I live on gummy bears and peach rings. They're like dried-up peaches, only dipped in sugar. You can get 'em at gas stations. They're like 99 cents for four bags. And cashews. I love cashews.”

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