"Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Mirrors Quotes #Views Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!”
“I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.”
“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.”
“When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject anything. Meditation is probably the only activity that doesn't add anything to the picture. Everything is allowed to come and go without further embellishment. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, non aggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of connecting with unconditional openness - this provides the basis for real change.”
“But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.”
“There's an Elvis movie on the marquee sign, we've all seen at least three times.”

Source : Song: Small Town Saturday Night, Album: Past the Point of Rescue
“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”

Source : Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press
“Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.”

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