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“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?” “Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you’re thinking about life and about the world.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“The first definition of love is to be there. This is a practice. How can you love if you are not there? In order to love you have to be there, body and mind united. A true lover knows that the practice of mindfulness is the foundation of true love.”
― No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
― No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
“she’d seen the spark in his fledgling soul, and no one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.”
― Timbuktu
― Timbuktu
“It would be truly wonderful if we could live as alcoholics do, to be unwarlike for just another day. We don’t.”
― Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut
― Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut
“jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning-up to do afterward—and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.”
― Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut
― Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut
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