"Only the insane take themselves seriously."

-- Max Beerbohm

#Godly Quotes #Insanity Quotes #Insane Quotes

“I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.”
“A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.”

Source : Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.244, Pan Macmillan
“Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?”
“My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”

Source : Ted Kennedy's eulogy for Robert Kennedy, St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, www.nydailynews.com. August 26, 2009.
“It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.”
“You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.”

Source : Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.85, Shambhala Publications
“Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.”
“A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.”

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