1st January 2015 Quotes & Sayings

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. — Charles Caleb Colton

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. — Hannah Arendt

Presence emerges when we feel personally powerful, which allows us to be acutely attuned to our most sincere selves. — Amy Cuddy

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010] — Anna Quindlen

Turn around, turn around, turn around
And you may come full circle
And be new here again — Gil Scott-Heron

With 70,000 thoughts a day and 95% of our activity controlled by the subconscious mind, no wonder that it feels as though we are asleep most of the time. To awake, we need to train Self-Remembering and Mindfulness. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that. — Layne Staley