"To have a human form is a joyful thing."

-- Zhuangzi

#Joy Quotes #Joyful Quotes #Form Quotes

“Optimisn is a choice. Cynicism isnt smarter - it's just safer.”
“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.”
“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.199, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“Human success is a quotation from overhead.”
“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.234, Penguin
“There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again,”

Source : "FBI Director: Cybercrime will eclipse terrorism" by Stacy Cowley, money.cnn.com. March 2, 2012.
“The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We call it 3HO, an organization of healthy, happy, and holy people. It has no membership charge, no presidents, and at this point not even a secretary. Anybody can be a member who will promise that he shall undertake to practice these exercises, and to practice to breathe consciously. Be aware that the breath is the divine charge and it is a gift of the God.”

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