"It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?"

-- Yevgeny Zamyatin

#Thinking Quotes #Flames Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Feathers predate birds.”
“Surveys show that surveys never lie.”

Source : Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're just yourself, and you come to terms with yourself struggling. There are some serious, serious things to deal with in terms of the immensity of the suffering that we humans create for ourselves and for the world around us.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
“Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.”

Source : Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”
“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.”
“I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.”

Source : "An incredible container for transformation". Interview with Sheila Bapat, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.
“Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.”

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