"Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind."

-- Ajahn Chah

#Understanding Quotes #Mind Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.”
“'Established' is a good word, much used in garden books, 'the plant, when established' ... Oh, become established quickly, quickly, garden! For I am fugitive, I am very fugitive - Those that come after me will gather these roses, And watch, as I do now, the white wisteria Burst, in the sunshine, from its pale green sheath. Planned. Planted. Established. Then neglected, Till at last the loiterer by the gate will wonder At the old, old cottage, the old wooden cottage, And say, 'One might build here, the view is glorious; This must have been a pretty garden once.”

Source : Ursula Bethell, Vincent O'Sullivan (1997). “Collected Poems”, p.8, Victoria University Press
“I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.”
“The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.”
“Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.”

Source : Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 3: All I Want is Everything”, p.5, A&C Black
“A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.”
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”

Source : "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

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