"When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging."

-- Alan Lightman

#Heart Quotes #People Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.”

Source : "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.
“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.131, iUniverse
“Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.”
“Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.”
“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.”
“When we mourn those who die young â€“ those who have been robbed of time â€“ we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek.”

Source : "Damage: a novel".
“You donâ€™t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.”
“Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.”

Source : Alex Comfort, John Bayliss (1969). “New Road ...: New Directions in European Art and Letters”

You may also like: