"Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future."

-- Maya Angelou

#Past Quotes #One Day Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.398, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
“English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.”

Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.125, Macmillan
“life is about making right things and going on..”
“The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”
“Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.”

Source : "Meditation: Insights and Inspiration". Book by Amit Ray, 2010.
“There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.”
“Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.”
“Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.”

Source : H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.455, Weiser Books

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