"Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself."

-- Medard Boss

#Powerful Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.”
“It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.”
“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”

Source : Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Any action is better than no action at all.”
“I imagine the ones weâ€™ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes thatâ€™s terrifying, and sometimes itâ€™s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.”
“Literature is the best way to overcome death.”
“Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.”

Source : Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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