Deceivingly Simple Quotes & Sayings

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with That Which Is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. This wanting and rewanting is an endless cycle for which, turns out, there is already a name: samsara. Samsara is at the heart of the vast human carnival: greed, neurosis, mad ambition, adultery, crimes of passion, the hacking to death of a terrified man on a hillside in the name of A More Pure And Thus Perfect Nation
and all of this takes place because we believe we will be made happy once our desires have been satisfied.
I know this. But still I'm full of desire ...
Buddha Boy — George Saunders

The Brothers Karamazov, — Haruki Murakami

Kaleb hadn't expected anything else - if he were on the other side, he wouldn't trust himself either. — Nalini Singh

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied. — Johnny Depp

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. — William Hazlitt

There is nothing wicked about having a dreadful singing voice, any more than there is something wicked about having dreadful posture, dreadful cousins, or a dreadful pair of pants. Many noble and pleasant people have any number of these things, and there are even one or two kind individuals who have them all. But if you have something dreadful, and you force it upon someone else, then you have done something quite wicked indeed. — Lemony Snicket

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV. — John Prine

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. — Brian Ferneyhough

Animals are good humans and humans are bad animals. — Akif Pirincci

The only model to follow is pure Islam. — Abu Bakar Bashir

YOU ARE SOMETHING BETTER. — Mandy Hale