"You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Uplifting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.”
“Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.”
“A steak needs fat to taste great.”
“It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.”
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.”

Source : Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins
“We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.”

Source : Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida
“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”
“The translation called good has original value as a work of art.”

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