Perdant Quotes & Sayings

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? — Eckhart Tolle

I actually hate reality TV! I know people love it, but when I watch, I'm analytical, and I'm like, 'This can't be real because of the camera position! And I see the cuts!' — Kathryn Prescott

For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold ... — David Grossman

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. — Julien Green

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work? — Barbara Kingsolver

I sing just for fun. — Agnetha Faltskog

The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past. — Walker Percy

I want what everybody wants,
that's how I know I'm still
breathing ... — Mark Doty

On this day of love, embrace the freedom, to not just give love - but to receive it, too. — Eleesha

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. — Michael Gambon

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went. — Beau Bridges

Reading for writers is like training for athletes. — Linda Sue Park

I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them. — Anne Frank