#in

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating. ↗

— Amanda Filipacchi

#life

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in? ↗

— Alice Munro

#life

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#find #good #happiness #run #see

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#inspirational

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#happiness #ignorance #life #life

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#enjoyment #life #living #life

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#desire #dualistic-thinking #grace #meditation #objectification

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. ↗

— Mark Doty

#life #living #love #philosophy #life

Pelit itu payah! Hemat itu jenius! ↗

— Yoshichi Shimada

#humor #life-lessons #pelit #pennywise #stingy

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey