"Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully"

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Needs Quotes #Littles Quotes #Madness Quotes

“By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.”
“The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.”
“Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.”
“I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.”
“Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!”
“Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?”
“Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.”
“Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough. And you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.”

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