Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.
Elmore Leonard
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If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone.
Chen Guangbiao
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I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
N. F. Simpson
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
E. M. Forster
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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.
Brad Warner
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True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.
William Wordsworth
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Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.
Kathy Smith
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Candice Millard
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa