"Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.(Renee Michel)"

-- Muriel Barbery

#Believe Quotes #Eye Quotes #Passion Quotes

“I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.”
“I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.”
“Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.”
“The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.”
“I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.”
“Belief is a choice. Not everyone is going to love Jesus. I'm not asking them to. I'm not asking them to come on the same spectrum as me. No matter where you fall on the faith spectrum, the spiritual can instill a sense of hope in you that's undeniable. The spiritual doesn't ask you to believe any one thing. It just opens you up.”
“My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.”
“Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.”

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