"The universe is an intelligence test."

-- Timothy Leary

#Tests Quotes #Universe Quotes

“I love a woman who can out-eat me.”

Source : "17 Questions with Beau Mirchoff" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2012.
“I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.”
“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.”

Source : Owen D. Young, Gerard Swope (1930). “Selected Addresses of Owen D. Young, Chairman of Board of Directors, and Gerard Swope, President, General Electric Company”
“There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.”

Source : César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing
“Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.”

Source : "Rhymes and reason". Interview with Douglas Century, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2002.
“To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.”
“Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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