"To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves."

-- Dogen

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“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks â€˜the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,â€™.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When Iâ€™m writing, I write. And then itâ€™s as if the muse is convinced that Iâ€™m serious and says, â€˜Okay. Okay. Iâ€™ll come.”
“The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."”
“I just got a car, and I gotta say, this car is very cryptic. The very first day I drove it, a light came on out of nowhere: 'Check engine.' Could they be any more vague? What if a light came on and said, 'Problem'?”
“Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.”
“Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.”
“When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.”
“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”

Source : Judith McNaught (1997). “Remember When”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.”

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