"We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong."

-- Dalai Lama

#Essence Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Edward Snowden is anything but narcissist. In fact, I wonder every day how he could come up with the courage, muster the courage to sacrifice everything just so he could do, as he said in rather eloquent speech initially, alert the American people to what was going on. Call him a traitor, call him whatever you want to. The fact is he is a symptom of the disease, and the disease is constant war and the national security state. That is what we've become. That is our raison d'Ãªtre in the world today, to wage war.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.”
“The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?”
“I'm trying to write every day if I can. I think the idea is to try and chip away at it as opposed to just sit down one day and then turn it on like a flick of a switch and expect everything to happen.”
“Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.”

Source : Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.29, Vintage
“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.”
“Sex sells everything, but I don't buy it.”

Source : Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997
“There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!”

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