"The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are."

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Martha Beck

#Expectations Quotes #Asia Quotes #Results Quotes

“It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.”
“Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past”

Source : Gary Zukav (2012). “Self-Empowerment Journal”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
“When we canâ€™t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us. When we donâ€™t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, itâ€™s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.”
“It's always an honour doing anything for your country.”
“At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.”
“In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.”

Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor
“The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a mullah, he was a mullah whose understanding of religion didn't go beyond parroting what he had heard from the next mullah. A mullah without a beard, a mullah in a four-star general's uniform, a mullah with the instincts of a corrupt tax inspector.”
“Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are invisible, intangible, inaudible and otherwise undetectable by any natural means.”

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