"When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begunâ€”that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidaysâ€”whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was havingâ€”that interludeâ€”the scrambly madnessâ€”all that time I had before?"

-- Douglas Coupland

#Holiday Quotes #Years Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.”
“It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.”
“The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.”

Source : Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub
“The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.”
“When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.”
“There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.”
“Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.”
“The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.”

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