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"Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life."
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"One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease."

"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully."

"To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath."

"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."

"Let the moment be memorable."

"Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world."

"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."

"Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind."

"There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive."
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"One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions."

"The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason."

"I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward."

"Children played at those stories, they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them."

"Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character."

"Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away."

"Immortality is a chancy thing, it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is."
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