"I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things."

-- Mary Oliver

#Follow Your Dreams Quotes #Curious Quotes #Clutter Quotes

“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.124, Macmillan
“We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988”
“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.274, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.”
“She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.”
“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.”

Source : Johnny Weir (2011). “Welcome to My World”, p.261, Simon and Schuster
“Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto”
“Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.”

Source : "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading," by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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