Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain.
Marty Rubin.
“No work is so important you have to do it.”
“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”
“To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.”
“If your work is stressful, it's not your work.”
“The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.”
“I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.”
“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”
“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
“Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.”
“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of y...”
“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and eac...”
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”
“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”
“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”
