"Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever."

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Source : Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”

Jack Kerouac

#Thinking Quotes #Essence Quotes #Forever Quotes

“If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.”
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
“Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.”
“I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.”
“I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.”

Source : Diana Palmer (2012). “Lawless”, p.286, Harlequin
“To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.”
“I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.”
“Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?”

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