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“...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass...”
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“There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?”
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“The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.”
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“Pop art is about liking things.”
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“People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.”
Source : Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.48, Penguin
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“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim -. . . for discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”
Source : "The Fiery Fountains" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1951.
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“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”
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“I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.”