"Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom."

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Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.52, Sentient Publications

Wei Wu Wei

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Phenomenal Quotes

“Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.”
“Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.”
“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.”
“I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.”
“Sometimes you just have to hold your nose and jump into something.”
“When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.”
“I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.”

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