"Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?""

-- Stephen Levine

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.”
“In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“A lot of people always use the term, 'I'm so blessed.' Most of it they believe is true.”
“He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.”
“Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.”
“All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.”
“If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.”

Source : "Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science". Book by Margaret Boden (Vol 1. p. 56), 2006.
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

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