"There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all."

-- P.D. Ouspensky

#Thinking Quotes #Awful Quotes

“My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.”
“I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.”
“Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.”
“Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.”

Source : "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.
“I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.”
“If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (1.1, "An Unearthly Child"), 23 November - 14 December, 1963.
“The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!”
“If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.”

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