"The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us."

-- Pema Chodron

#Perspective Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.”
“Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.”
“Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.”
“Whoa!" she says as I plow into her. " What are you DOING? Get off me!" I hang on tight. "Can't a girl just hug her big sister?" She stops fighting me. "Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. "No one died." "Then get off!”
“Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.”
“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”

Source : Athol Fugard (2009). “Tsotsi”, p.38, Canongate Books
“I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.”
“Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.”

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