"Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble."

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Giorgio Morandi

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“If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.54, Ballantine Books
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”
“I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.”
“The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.”
“Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.”
“The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.”

Source : "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.
“Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.”
“As Hoffman later lamented, â€œThe reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.”

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