"The past is a sorry country."

-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Country Quotes #Sorry Quotes #Past Quotes

“But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”
“The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.”

Source : Rudolf Carnap, Rolf A. George (1969). “The Logical Structure of the World: And, Pseudoproblems in Philosophy”, p.299, Open Court Publishing
“If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.75, Shambhala Publications
“It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.839, Penguin
“With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.”
“I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.”
“So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.”
“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”

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