"The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

“When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.”
“I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didnâ€™t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew itâ€™s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that Iâ€™m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something Iâ€™m going to enjoy and itâ€™s time for me to do something different.”
“To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.”
“Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.”
“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”

Source : Maya Banks (2013). “Rush”, p.122, Penguin
“Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?”
“Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?”

Source : Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.8, Macmillan
“I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.”

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