"Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns."

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Source : Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.329, Dundurn

Northrop Frye

#Men Quotes #Animal Quotes #Body Quotes

“It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.”
“Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or GyÃ¶rgy], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far from each other as stars; only the remote radiance reaches to the other. I know that human beings are surrounded by dark, great seas, and thus they look across to one another, yearning but never reaching one another”
“I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.”
“He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.”
“Maintain a receptive attitude!”

Source : Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”
“It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.”
“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”
“Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.”

Source : Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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