"My life has been regulated by insomnia."

-- Louise Bourgeois

#Sleep Quotes #Insomnia Quotes

“When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far...”
“On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.”
“A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”
“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.”
“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

Source : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.32, Broadway Books
“Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like youâ€™re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But youâ€™re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.”

Source : Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.108, North Atlantic Books
“Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.”
“He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.”

Source : Porphyry (1823). “Select works of Porphyry; containing his four books On Abstinence from Animal Food; his treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by T. Taylor; with an appendix, explaining the allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses, by the translator”, p.126

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