"When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared."

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Source : Carol Orsborn (1993). “Inner Excellence: Spiritual Principles of Life-Driven Business”

Carol Orsborn

#Thinking Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Empty Quotes

“The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.”
“In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work.”
“His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor`s residence of Gracie mansion. That he took up residence as a house guest in an apartment owned by friends of his.The friends were a loving gay couple. And that is the best thing I know about Rudy Giuliani.”
“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”
“Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.”
“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...”

Source : Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.119, Heinemann
“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Source : Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.541, Doubleday

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