"Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there..."

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Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “No fond return of love”

Barbara Pym

#People Quotes #Upset Quotes #Library Quotes

“Then one day, weâ€™ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. Theyâ€™re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and thatâ€™s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain canâ€™t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, itâ€™s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.”
“THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.30, Shambhala Publications
“Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.”
“We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.”
“I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.”
“Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.”
“When properly applied, the kamae reflects the ninja's heart. This means that our physical nature conforms to our intentions, and there is no division between our interior and exterior aspects. This state of integrated mind and body action is totally natural, and can be observed readily in the movements of animals as they interact with their environment. Only human beings seem to develop the need to be trained in natural body motion.”

Source : Masaaki Hatsumi (1981). “Ninjutsu, History and Tradition”, Action Pursuit Group
“I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.”

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