"It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride."

-- James Lee Burke

#Children Quotes #Path Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Love thyself so as to let others love you. Love thyself so as to let people near.”
“As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.”
“By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?”
“Act always so as to increase the number of choices”

Source : Heinz Von Foerster (1984). “Observing Systems”
“I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess, but its quite literally a pain in the arse, so I dont use it.”
“The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.”

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