"Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Ego Quotes #Substitutes Quotes #Feels Quotes

“My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.”

Source : "Studs Terkel, voice of America's uncelebrated, dies aged 96" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
“World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.”
“This is a call to actionâ€”not an action that will make things better in six monthsâ€™ time or a yearâ€™s time, but action that might save someoneâ€™s life and someoneâ€™s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.”
“Yesterday I saw a child wearing a T-shirt that said, "If you love me, don't feed me junk food." I was delighted to see this, but I also know how difficult it can be to feed our children well, particularly when the foods that are most convenient and the most heavily advertised are often the ones we should avoid. Joel Fuhrman's new book is a blessing, because it makes it so much easier. It is excellent, and full of clarity, wisdom, and guidance you can trust. It can indeed give you the power to shape your child's health destiny - John Robbins”
“He who is full of joy is full of love.”
“We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.”
“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Source : Donna Tartt (2002). “The Little Friend”, Vintage

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