"We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Smart Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Gone Quotes

“The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.”
“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”
“The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.”
“Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.124, New Directions Publishing
“While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.”
“we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.”
“I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.”
“Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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