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Thinking Quotes by Tom Robbins
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
- And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of…
- If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of…
- Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the…
- If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses.…
- If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up…
- A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from…
- Life is hard if you think it's hard.
- I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
- A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder'…
- So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
- Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.
- The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and…
- Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
- Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance…
- But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by…
- salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the…
- The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there…
- You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
- We are seldom as limited as we think we are.
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