"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Summer Quotes #Night Quotes #Killers Quotes

“You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.”
“Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.”
“Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.”

Source : Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc
“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.”

Source : "xkcd's Randall Munroe Defeats The Robot Apocalypse" by Alex Knapp, www.forbes.com. August 2, 2012.
“The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.”
“Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.”
“I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.”

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