“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
– Mary Higgins Clark
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
– Oliver Sacks
“I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay.”
– William Sloane Coffin
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
– John Lubbock
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God save us – Vikram Seth
“God save us from people who mean well.”
– Vikram Seth
“The near enemy of loving-kindness is attachment. At first, attachment may feel like love, but as it grows it becomes more clearly the opposite, characterised by clinging, controlling and fear.
The near enemy of compassion is pity, and this also separates us. Pity feels sorry for that poor person over there as if he were somehow different from us.
The near enemy of sympathetic joy (the joy in the happiness of others) is comparison, which looks to see if we have more than, the same as, or less than another.
The near enemy of equanimity is indifference. True equanimity is balance in the midst of experience, whereas indifference is a withdrawal and not caring, based on fear.”
– Jack Kornfield
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
– Amy Bloom
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Sea and the stars – Finn Butler
“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes
you cannot even breathe deeply, and
the night sky is no home, and
you have cried yourself to sleep enough times
that you are down to your last two percent, but
nothing is infinite,
not even loss.
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.”
– Finn Butler
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
― Sholem Aleichem
“Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.”
– Unknown
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Others think of us – Ethel Barrett
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”
– Ethel Barrett
“If a tree falls in a forest and your wife isn’t around to hear it you are still wrong.”
– Unknown
“You’re a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust.”
– Unknown