"It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters."

-- Conn Iggulden

#Thinking Quotes #May Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else.”
“There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh”
“I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.”
“I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.”

Source : "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
“Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.”
“Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.”
“While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.”
“The whims of youth break all the rules.”

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