"Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way."

-- John French Sloan

#Way Quotes #Originality Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .”
“The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.”
“We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.”
“Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.”

Source : David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.3, Oxford University Press
“[N]ever stop being yourself.”

Source : Ruth Minsky Sender (2016). “The Cage”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.”
“It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet - like having my picture or videos online.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

Source : 1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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