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Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing… — Octavio Paz
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. — Eckhart Tolle
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad… — James Redfield
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted... — Carl Jung
I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'. — Tamora Pierce
Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility… — Christopher Paolini
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that… — Kevin Brockmeier
I hope that death contains less than this. — Charles Bukowski
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone… — Salman Rushdie
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this… — Albert Einstein
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.… — Victor Pelevin
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past… — Jeanette Winterson
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility… — Milan Kundera
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight,… — Patrick Ness
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons… — Graham Greene
Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at… — Mary Roach
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy. — George Sand
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand — Italo Calvino
The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock. — Dean Koontz
It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica… — Douglas Adams
True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which… — Jack Kornfield

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