"She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.”

Source : "Trash". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2013.
“People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.”

Source : "Tools for Conviviality" by Ivan Illich, (p. 10), 1973.
“There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort ... The need of work is in me.”
“If you can educate Muslims about their biggest enemy, and if you can solve the problem, the ideological problem, it doesn't give an immediate result, but it's the best thing over the long term.”
“I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this conference, you will discover that He has spoken to you to help you, to strengthen you, and to lead you home into His presence.”
“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.”

Source : Peter Corning (2003). “Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind”, p.299, Cambridge University Press
“My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.”
“I just want to take advantage of every day that I'm in the lineup.”

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