"Speculation and constant judging will only limit what you see. Expand your sight by looking at everything in life as an opportunity to develop and transform yourself."

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Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.95

Shinjo Ito

#Opportunity Quotes #Sight Quotes #Judging Quotes

“Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.”
“If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.”

Source : "Murphy Lives!" by Robert L. Forward, Science magazine, p. 78, January-February 1983.
“The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all true. He was a flat-out killer. With a metal clank, a door opened at the other end of the gym, and the sound of a newborn's cries echoed up into the high ceiling. The warrior stopped in midpunch and wheeled around as a lovely female carrying young in a pink blanket came over to him. His face softened, positively melted.”
“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
“I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.”
“Arriving there is what you are destined for”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.19, Princeton University Press
“After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.”
“The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.”

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