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“So little of what could happen does happen.”
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“People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment.
The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next after that. When you let go of desire, then you're free to enjoy whatever is right in front of you.”
― The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology
The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next after that. When you let go of desire, then you're free to enjoy whatever is right in front of you.”
― The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
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