"In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss."

-- Edward Bennett Williams

#Cutting Quotes #Loss Quotes #Winning Quotes

“There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.”
“The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.”
“I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.”
“A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo”

Source : Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”
“And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.”
“It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.”
“In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.”
“She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.”

Source : Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.58, Macmillan

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