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“To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.”
Source : Michael Port, Mina Samuels (2009). “The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons
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“I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.”
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“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”
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“Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.”
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“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”
Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.329, Spiegel & Grau
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“The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.”
Source : Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA
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“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.”
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“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
Source : Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.196, Harmony
