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“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believed to be right,” a British scholar had warned of Gandhi. “He is a dangerous and uncomfortable enemy because his body which you can always conquer gives you so little purchase of his soul.”
― Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

“Little kids all love the stars. They want to be astronauts. Explore the universe, see what no one else has ever seen. But then we get older and--we stop looking up. We keep our eyes on the ground and decide to be something realistic.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“We like to think we control our minds, control the flow of thought, but if it was possible to do that then you wouldn’t have travelled halfway around the world for my advice.’ He pointed at me, playfully, laughing. ‘In fact, if it were possible to control your thoughts then you’d never have any reason to get stressed at all. You’d simply block out all the unpleasant thoughts and live peacefully with all your happy thoughts.’ I couldn’t believe how obvious it sounded when he explained it like that. It was almost as if I already knew it at some level, but had somehow forgotten to apply the idea to my life.”
― Andy Puddicombe, The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness

“In a world of planar surfaces, someone became 3D”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow