"We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#Farewell Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Years Quotes

“One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.”

Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
“October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.”
“Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.”
“To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you.”
“Itâ€™s ironic that as scientists that donâ€™t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.”
“Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.”

Source : Nyanaponika Thera (2005). “The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit”, p.25, Buddhist Publication Society
“Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.”
“I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.”

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