"Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice."

-- Alain Robert

#Nice Quotes #Being Nice Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.”
“Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.”

Source : Joel Achenbach (1991). “Why Things are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Life”
“It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.”
“Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.”
“It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty,”
“There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67)”
“Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.”
“The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.”

Source : "The Mis-Education of the Negro". Book by Carter G. Woodson, 1933.

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