Erkin Vohidov Quotes & Sayings

[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen ... To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape ... It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be. — Jessie Sampter

I pissed away over ten million dollars
On dope and crack
I passed away deader than a door knob
But now I'm back — Al Jourgensen

For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali — Barbara Stoler Miller

The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that's born for death. That is the source of all men's fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven's light, shut up in the body's tomb, a prison dark and deep. — Virgil

(What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) — Anonymous

Infinite players die. Since the boundaries of death are always part of the play, the infinite player does not die at the end of the play, but in the course of play. — James P. Carse

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger. — Sheryl Crow

Dream sets us on fire.
Dream gives us direction.
Dream betters our potential.
Dream helps us prioritize.
Dream adds value to our work and
life.
Dream colors our future. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

She seemed to absorb the short-term oscillations of life without being dislodged by them, as though she were actually standing back observing that both travail and elation were merely part of a much larger, much smoother curve. — Margot Lee Shetterly