"Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself."

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Source : Garth Nix (2009). “Abhorsen”, p.23, Zondervan

Garth Nix

#Believe Quotes #Enough Quotes #Wells Quotes

“So, if people didnâ€™t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea â€“ or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we donâ€™t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe FernÃ¡ndez-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.”
“Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.”
“I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.”
“You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.”
“Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.”

Source : Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press
“Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.”
“I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.”

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