"Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?"

-- Yukio Mishima

#Facts Quotes #Sin Quotes #Remorse Quotes

“It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.”
“As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajÃ±a, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.”

Source : Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela (1992). “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”, p.26, MIT Press
“I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.”
“I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.”
“Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.”
“I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.”
“You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.”

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