"As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change."

-- Peter Wessel Zapffe

#Long Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.”
“James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.”
“Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, thatâ€™s what we are.”
“Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.”
“No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.”
“You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.”

Source : Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Foundation of Mysticism”, p.31, BookBaby
“We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.”

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