"Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river."

-- Deepak Chopra

#Spiritual Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You're the reason our kids are ugly.”
“To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.”

Source : Lorna Landvik (1999). “Patty Jane's House of Curl”, Ivy Books
“... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.”
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”
“I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.”
“I never wanted to be an actor.”
“The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.”
“I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.”

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