"You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Funeral Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.”
“Conditional love is love that is turned off and on....Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that pleases them. "I love you, honey, for cleaning your room!" Children who think they need to earn love become people pleasers, or perfectionists. Those who are raised on conditional love never really feel loved.”
“If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.”
“Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God.”
“My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.”

Source : "All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me". Book by Jeff Dunham, www.today.com. 2010.
“Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.”
“You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.11, Random House
“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.87, Macmillan

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