"Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Important Quotes #World Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.”
“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3315, Delphi Classics
“Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”

Source : "Brave, Brainy, Changeable - Zadie Smith Revealed" by Heller McAlpin, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.
“whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.”

Source : Kay Boyle, Sandra Whipple Spanier (1988). “Life Being the Best & Other Stories”, p.113, New Directions Publishing
“Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.”
“You cannot clap with one hand alone.”

Source : John Taylor Wood (2010). “Quotes to Nirvana”, p.44, iUniverse
“Design is something you have to put your hand to,”
“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”

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