"This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Essence Quotes #People Quotes #Mad Quotes

“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .”
“That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.”
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

Source : Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”
“If you have the power to create it, you also have the power to transform it.”
“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”
“and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.”
“I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.”
“I believe in the person I want to become”

Source : "Ride". Video clip, "Born to Die" album deluxe edition, www.youtube.com. October 12, 2012.

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