"Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station."

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Source : Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

Paulo Coelho

#Moving Quotes #Journey Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs, but so well written. That, and old French pop. I love that, because I don't speak French. It's all just pop music! But I love it because it just makes me focus on the melodies.”
“When you give, give with joy and smiling.”
“If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.”
“Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.”
“The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.”

Source : Gary Taubes (2010). “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It”, p.140, Anchor
“Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mÃ©lÃ©tÃ¨ (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press
“Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.”

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