"Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?"

-- Matthieu Ricard

#Mind Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Translate Quotes

“Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!" Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored... maybe I'm lonely?”

Source : Lauren Myracle (2013). “Bliss”, p.74, Abrams
“[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.”
“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.”

Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press
“Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?”
“It is not night when I do see your face.”
“Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.”
“There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.”
“If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.”

Source : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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