"Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?"

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#People Quotes #Age Quotes #Television Quotes

“It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.”
“Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!”
“No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.146, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.”
“Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.”
“As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good.”
“So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.”
“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”

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