"When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed."

-- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.408, A&C Black
“A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.”
“Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.”

Source : John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”
“I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.”
“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.”
“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”

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