"When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition."

-- Leonard Jacobson

#Past Quotes #Mind Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.”
“As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.”
“If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.”
“Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.89, Rodale
“One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then life starts to confine us inside our small realities. And then, the shadow of those other possible lives stays to lurk us and you can't shake it off, since it was so easy, it'd have been so easy to lead another life. We make twenty thousand small choices a day, and maybe one of those choices is the one that will take us to a completely different life. If you stop to think about it, it is vertiginous, hypnotizing and distressing.”
“All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.”
“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”

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