""Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#People Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Want Quotes

“I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.”

Source : "'Unchained' Admiration Between Actor And Director". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 18, 2012.
“The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.”

Source : Mark Akenside, “The Pleasures Of Imagination: Book The Second”
“Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.”
“She looked up, her face pink as a Christmas ham. â€œYou ever try chasing down a car?â€ she gasped. â€œIâ€™ll one-up you. I gave Scott my hot dog and asked if heâ€™d go to Summer Solstice with me.â€ â€œWhat does the hot dog have to do with anything?â€ â€œI said heâ€™d be a wiener if he didnâ€™t go with me.â€ Vee wheezed laughter. â€œIâ€™d have run harder had I known Iâ€™d get to see you call him a wiener.”
“You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”
“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”

Source : Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.17, Head of Zeus
“Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.”
“You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out”

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