"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Mind Quotes #Afternoon Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?”
“I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”
“If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.”

Source : "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.
“My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.”
“Deeds are males, words females are.”

Source : "Scene of Folly", p. 147, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 184-87, 1922.
“For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song and then afterward it turns out being really personal. I get really overwhelmed by how I feel a lot and sometimes - I feel like my body and my brain can't deal with all the different emotions and I feel like I'm just going to explode.”
“We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.”

Source : Maria Irene Fornes (1987). “Promenade and Other Plays”, Paj Publication
“Talk lives in a manâ€™s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.”

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