Jamil Lawrence > Jamil's Quotes

“Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“Making it” in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don’t make it, so you need other human beings to “fail” so that your life can have meaning.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The second time Lord Brock has stood before this Council and demanded proof, and the second time no one has cared. What proof could there be, after all? A birthmark on Luthar’s arse in the shape of a crown? Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Nothing has changed about the choice except what you’ve spent to get the tickets: time in the first case, money in the second. What this and other experiments confirm is what you might expect: we are more sensitive to small losses of money than small losses of time. We feel we’ve lost more if we choose cheaper tickets than we do if we choose tickets based on working fewer hours. You probably felt this when you were making the ticket choice. Two hundred dollars is a lot to give up. On the other hand, fifteen hours of time isn’t that much more than five hours.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“Clock-time people use schedules that are defined by the hours of the day—the clock.23 They don’t move on from an activity merely because it feels like the “right” thing to do; rather, they move on because it’s 1:30 and that’s when they’re slated to move on.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All the things that Jezal had thought he wanted—power, fame, the beautiful trappings of greatness—they were nothing but dust. All he wanted now was for things to be as they had been, before he got them. But there was no way back. Not ever.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“The quality of our lives is determined by our ability to respond to the varied complex situations that we encounter. If the ability to respond with intelligence, competence, and sensitivity is compromised by a compulsive or reactive approach, we are enslaved by the situation. It means we have allowed the nature of our life experience to be determined by our circumstances, not by us.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy

“The theory I will present, based on some well-established science as well as some new science and some speculative ideas, states that the universe is neither friendly, hostile, nor indifferent to us. Rather, it is responsive. We live in a cosmos that responds to our actions by bringing us more of the same. To oversimplify for a moment, if we act friendly to the world, we find that circumstances emerge that reinforce our belief that the world is friendly. Similarly, if we act hostile to the world, we find our perspective justified because events arise that confirm our preconceived notions. When we align with circumstances, circumstances align with us. We can call this flow.”
― Sky Nelson-Isaacs, Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World

“Improved breathing habits: Conscious Breathing ensures that plenty of oxygen is delivered to the cells in our body so that fat can be used as an energy source. An excellent time to practice breathing retraining is when our energy feels low, as it may make it easier to resist the impulse to eat something sweet.”
― Anders Olsson, Conscious Breathing: Discover The Power of Your Breath

“A lower-protein (and low-fat) diet is the most effective way to lose weight, improve your health, and prevent future disease.”
― Garth Davis, Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

“A change of lifestyle becomes vital for the correction of any dehydration-produced disorder. The backbone of The Water Cure program is, simply, sufficient water and salt intake; regular exercise; a balanced, mineral-rich diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables and the essential fats needed to create cell membranes, hormones, and nerve insulation; exclusion of caffeine and alcohol; and meditation to solve and detoxify stressful thoughts. Exclusion of artificial sweeteners from the diet is an absolute must for better health.”
― Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty!

“By that stage of my growth, I could see that the practice of surrender was actually done in two, very distinct steps: first, you let go of the personal reactions of like and dislike that form inside your mind and heart; and second, with the resultant sense of clarity, you simply look to see what is being asked of you by the situation unfolding in front of you. What would you be doing if you weren’t being influenced by the reactions of like or dislike? Following that deeper guidance will take your life in a very different direction from where your preferences would have led you. That is the clearest I can explain my surrender experiment, and it became the foundation of both my spiritual and worldly life.”
― Mickey A. Singer, The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

“Metabolism slows down 90 percent after 30 minutes of sitting.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“This hypothesis derives from a broader association between chronic hypohydration (extracellular dehydration) and raised levels of the hormone angiotensin II (AngII) associated with many chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.”
― C.W. Willington M.D., Intracellular Hydration Breakthrough: NEW HYDRATION DISCOVERY CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

“Alas,” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.” “You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“According to Annelie Pompe, a prominent mountaineer and world-champion free diver, alkaline tissues can hold up to 20 times more oxygen than acidic ones.”
― Mark Sircus, Healing With Iodine: Your Missing Link to Better Health

“On registering at her center she evaluates a patient’s starting level by how many times he or she can stand up and sit down from a straight-backed chair in 30 seconds. The average is standing up nine to 14 times. More is obviously better. Less than nine times needs work.”
― Joan Vernikos, Designed to Move: The Science-Backed Program to Fight Sitting Disease and Enjoy Lifelong Health