"One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate â€” disgusting behavior!"

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Source : Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”

Sei Shonagon

#Stories Quotes #Littles Quotes #Details Quotes

“Our experience of reality is the result of the magical alchemy of the creation of our thoughts, our beliefs, our decisions, our attitudes, our feelings. All of these are, for the most part, unconscious. Mindfulness allows us to watch these thoughts and choices and decisions without being triggered and having to take action and give meaning.”

Source : "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.”
“The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34
“Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.”
“A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it”
“Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University”
“If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.”
“A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.”

Source : Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

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