"May be able to die those who didn't know how to live"

-- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

#May Quotes #Able Quotes

“You find out what you think by talking to yourself.”
“There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance”
“I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.”
“Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.”
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan
“I'm the audience first, and if you're gonna be a great performer, you need to be a great audience. So, I do music for me first, and whoever likes it likes it, and whoever doesn't -- well, it's just not for them.”
“At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.”

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