"In relationships it is best to assume nothing."

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Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

Jessica Zafra

#Assuming Quotes #Assume Nothing Quotes

“Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.”
“People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.”
“For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
“Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.”
“The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.”
“I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.”
“I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.”
“It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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