"Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge."

-- Ursula Vernon

#Once Upon A Time Quotes #Wicked Quotes #Littles Quotes

“We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is not the range of the knowable. There are things we can measure, like time, but yet our minds do not grasp their meaning. There are things we cannot measure, like happiness or pain, and yet their meaning is perfectly clear to us.”
“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”

Source : "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.
“Fear too often spells failure.”
“Letting go of the need to control things doesnâ€™t mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc David from Mar 11, 2015
“I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.”
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

Source : 1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.
“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”

Source : Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (2009). “The Tanners”, p.72, New Directions Publishing
“When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.”

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