"This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Morning Quotes #Soul Quotes #Faithful Quotes

“[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.”
“I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am”
“The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky...”
“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence itâ€¦ Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
“Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life after the techniques of the laboratory, is the counterpart of modern industrialism, for which the factory is the prototype of human existence, and which models all branches of culture after production on the conveyor belt.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black
“If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.”
“Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.”
“I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.”

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