"While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?"

-- Michael Meade

#Self Quotes #Chance Quotes #True Self Quotes

“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
“We are what we think about.Â When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts.Â The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.”
“Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.”
“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jul 29, 2016
“Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and IÂ be lying Each within our narrow bed.”

Source : Edward Caswall (1858). “The Masque of Mary and Other Poems”, p.220
“Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.”
“You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.”
“Whenever there's an interview with me, I might read it, but I don't read the comments because they're so hateful sometimes. When someone writes something nasty, I just think, "If that's your contribution to my day, I really don't need your impoliteness." I'm lucky that people are very cool with me and I get a lot of love. I appreciate that.”

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