"My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Dream Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vegetables Quotes

“Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.320, Simon and Schuster
“The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.”
“It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, andâ€”without even knowing itâ€”we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.”
“A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.”
“Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.”
“... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds”
“If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.”

Source : A. C. Green, Joann Cole Webster (1994). “Victory”
“Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.”

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