"As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual."

-- Jeff Koons

#Spiritual Quotes #Moving Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
“If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile”
“Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble daysâ€”the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyismâ€”was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consumeâ€”to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.”
“I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.”
“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”
“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
“In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.”

Source : "The Art of Asking". Book by Amanda Palmer, blog.amandapalmer.net. November 11, 2014.
“I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift...it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all.”

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