If you value the person you’re with, you have to be aware of them all the time. That’s a duty in a relationship that I hadn’t figured earlier on. It’s like making love – it becomes deeper and more satisfying if your attention is on the other person.
William Shatner
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It makes one think like Patrick White and estimate how books or developments are left in the time allowed. Focus. Focus. Focus.
Author Unknown. Know the author? Leave a comment -
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard -
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Leo Sara Teasdale, “The Philosopher” -
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans -
It’s as if there’s a golden city that everyone wants to visit and I’m coming down from having visited and I see people sweating and tearing through brambles trying to get up and I want to say, ‘Don’t go there, it doesn’t exist, it’ll hurt you and it’s pointless.’ That golden city is fame, achievement, riches and all the rest of it.
Stephen Fry -
There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.
Charles Bukowski -
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi -
Well, I’ve worried some about, you know, why write books … why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them. And it’s been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their minds with … humanity, and however you want to poison their minds, it’s presumably to encourage them to make a better world.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
Author Unknown -
These reported events are like an arrow shot at my heart but it lands at my feet. I choose not to bend over, pick it up, and stab myself with it.
Author Unknown, Buddhist Discussion Group -
Cooking is very important for men. If you can’t cook well, take some lessons. It’s an asset that will carry you into any relationship. Women love it: it takes the burden off them and alludes to a sharing of responsibility.
Kim Gordon -
We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have, and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.
Julian Assange, Wikileaks -
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it – who are you?
Eckhart Tolle -
1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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