"When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping."

-- Byron Katie

#Pain Quotes #Moving Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.”
“I don't want to be married just to be married. ...”
“Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I donâ€™t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.”
“If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you”

Source : "Valerie Bertinelli Enjoying Career Revival After Losing Weight". www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2007.
“It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)”
“I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.”
“I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.”
“Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.”

Source : "How Katrina humbled the American news machine" by Jeff Jarvis, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2005.

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