The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett – The Light In The Heart
Not beginning but ending
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
Magical Things
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Thank you Tim Ferriss for bringing this insightful quotation to my attention.
Needs not greed
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
Dogs go
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
Opinion & Perspective
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
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Drama is
“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
— Alfred Hitchcock
Fiction is
“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
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Meditation is not
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”
~ Deepak Chopra
Election time
“We should all welcome the disappearance of a ministry which has neither achievement in the past, policy in the present, nor prospects in the future, to justify its existence.”
Chris Watson, first Australian Labor leader 1905
