"Finding Nirvana is like locating silence."

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Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom Quotes #Silence Quotes #Findings Quotes

“I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.”

Source : "He's got the world at his feet" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2008.
“A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.”
“What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity.”
“When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.”
“Brief life is here our portion.”

Source : John Mason Neale (1867). “Hymns suitable for invalids”, p.45
“I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.”
“A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.”
“I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.”

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