"You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you."

-- Annie Dillard

#Heart Quotes #Brain Quotes #Break Quotes

“There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.”
“In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.”

Source : Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.139, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS
“Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem.”
“I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.”
“The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.”
“When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
“When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom”
“You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.”

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