A Quotes
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“A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.”
“A person desires more out of life than simply makeshift survival. How does a person live sensationally? Must we pursue pleasure wherever and however we can find it? Alternatively, must a person suppress or at least check some of their instinctive, beastly desires to forge a quality state of happiness? Arguably, a majority of people benefit when each person labors to control their personage. On the other hand, perchance the Ancient Romans were correct openly to embrace the notion that humankind’s base nature demands that all full-bodied persons act to satiate their rapacious lust. Perhaps various religious doctrines and philosophical grumps were correct to embrace an alternative creed that personal happiness and stable community relationships are dependent upon conditioning the masses to exercise self-discipline. Perhaps other thinkers who advocate living passionately devoted to achieving virtuous goals while resisting a path of debauchery present the most gallant argument how to live brilliantly in the face of absurdity. Perchance the test of any ethical code governing how we should live must begin by questioning whether living in accordance with the prescribed guidelines assist us achieve emotional equanimity? Does our lifestyle choice bring harmony to the mind and body? Does our personal protocol facilitate carefree immersion in daily affairs? Does our code of conduct allow us to transcend the impoverishment, corruption, and brutality of our times? Does our moral etiquette enable us to glean satisfaction in the commonplace acts of living carefully? Does our philosophical and ethical methodology allow us to strain the innermost contentment and joy from the purity of nature’s bounty?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person desires to achieve the apex of his or her potentiality.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person desires to lead a self-constructed life rather than live a life duplicating other people’s footsteps.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.”
Source: The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life
“A person devolves his or her hardiness from the ark-like powers of love to create, protect, and destroy. When we are in love, we discover what we long to become, we also discover what we lack. When we are in love, we are empowered to seek out our destiny. When we lose at love, our confidence is devastated. In the wake of a breakup with a lover, we languish in solitude. Caught in the riptide of incompleteness, we suffer terribly.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person devoted to attaining self-realization would be foolish to ignore the well-intended advice of people whom care about them. Although it is essential for each of us to seek individual growth, other people can offer astute personal observations that might otherwise elude us.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it”
Source: White Oleander
“A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.”
“A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.”
“A person dishonored is worst than dead.”
“A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.”
Source: The Book of Guys: Stories
“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.”
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
Source: The Wanderess
“A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.”
“A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.”
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming to know oneself. Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers. It is our curiosity and refusal to be satisfied with the status quo that compels us to challenge ourselves to learn and continue to grow. We only establish inner peace of mind with acceptance of the world, with the recognition of our connection to the entirety of the universe, and understanding that chaos and change are inevitable. We must also love because without love there are no acts of creation. Without love, humankind is a spasmodic pool of brutality and suffering. Love is a balm. It cures human aches and pains; it unites couples, families, and cultures. Love is a creative force, without love there is no art or religion. Art expresses thought and feelings, an articulation of adore and reverence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.”
“A person does not want to lead or follow their friends. Friendship implies a close association, a sharing amongst equals. The difficulty in maintaining a friendship is that no two people are equal, and at some point, one person must concede part of their pride in order to maintain the relationship that is growing lopsided in power or prestige.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.”
“A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.”
“A person doesn't try to obtain freedom if they think they're already free.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.”
Source: In My Father's House: And Related Readings
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
“A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.”
“A person doesn't mourn forever.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.”
“A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.”
“A person either disciplines his finances or his finances disciplines him.”
“A person employs human reason and intellect to guide our earthly expedition. We can stumble through life satisfying the unconscious dictates of the mind or take control of our life by increasing our level of conscious awareness. Philosophy always commences with an act of consciousness. We must follow our moral passions. We create our reality by what we perceive as truth. We imagine a life that we wish to experience. Live the life that you envision. Do not allow other people or external determinates to control your conception of the self, because otherwise you are living someone else’s life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person exhibiting confusion at high altitude will commonly forget to take oxygen to alleviate it.”
“A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.”
“A person experiments in life and reflects upon those events in order to discover how to lead a meaningful life. We conduct a quest searching for the source our essential being. What we seek is inside us waiting for us to discover. Until we realize the vital inner source that provides direction for our life, all our efforts are in vain. The ego with its craving and fearful protection strategies is what prevents us from perceiving the transparency of the world in which we belong. When we cease clinging to the past and no longer daydream of the future and unreservedly accept whatever is occurring while sacrificing ourselves in service of other people our sense of self vanishes and we exist only as conscious and nonjudgmental witnesses of reality.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person expressing low confidence or self-esteem may be silently asking for empowerment; fostering self-belief can make a significant difference.”
“A person feels "lucky" because his desires are satisfied; And a person feels "unlucky" because his desires have been frustrated.”
Source: 把时间当作朋友
“A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.”
“A person flourishes under the care of one who daily nourishes them with joy, even through mere words alone”
“A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How could I have lived without reading it!" and also, "What a pity I did not read it in my youth!" Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading.”
Source: Mr Palomar
“A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.”
Source: Portraits of Devotion
“A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.”
“A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest symptoms but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead ego-centred, competitive, goal-oriented lives. Overpreoccupied with their past and their future, they tend to have a limited awarenessof the present and thus a limited ability to derive satisfaction from ordinary activities in everyday life. They concentrate on manipulating the external world and measure their living standard by the quantity of material possessions, while they become ever more alienated from their inner world and unable to appreciate the process of life. For people whose existence is dominated by this mode of experience no level of wealth, power, or fame will bring genuine satisfaction”
“A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.”
“A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.”
Source: Stand Against the Wind: Fuel for the Revolution of Your Soul
“A person got hit by a car. You didn't feel the pain because you are not attached to that person. Someone passed a comment on your clothes; You felt pain because you're attached to your clothes. Attachment causes pain and pleasure.”
“A person has flaws but Jesus has none, quite like the images of models on billboards - you know why, because both images are doctored to sell a product - in case of the models, it's some cosmetic or some apparel, and in case of Jesus, it's religion.”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“A person has numerous resources available for learning including observing nature and witnessing how other people behave. We can examine other people lives to find clues how to live, but ultimately we must develop a personal code of living a sterling existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.”