"In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness."

-- Pico Iyer

#Motivational Quotes #Self Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.”
“Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.”
“The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.”

Source : Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr
“Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself.”
“And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.”
“We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.”
“Behind every tree there's a new monster.”
“The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.”

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