"Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience."

-- Edward Abbey

#Philosophy Quotes #Buddhism Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.”
“No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.”
“Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.”
“I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.”
“My connection to music is so strong. I cling to it. I vibe out to it. I release stress to it. Music is really always close to me. It's really present in my work in terms of how I relate to characters is through rhythm and sound, even in their speech.”
“I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looked like Johnny Depp - and he knows that. We've been together for twelve years, and he still looks like Johnny Depp.”
“The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett”
“The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.”

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