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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin (Via Quotes)
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you’re going to fail big or you’re gonna win big (Via Quotes)
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego (Via Quotes)
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen (Via Quotes)
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running (Via Quotes)
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways (Via Quotes)
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone (Via Quotes)
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut (Via Quotes)
The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner (Via Quotes)
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown (Via Quotes)
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows (Via Quotes)
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people (Via Quotes)
All of a sudden I discovered that I’m allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it (Via Quotes)
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable (Via Quotes)
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you’re studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve (Via Quotes)
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice (Via Quotes)
Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world (Via Quotes)
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours (Via Quotes)
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted (Via Quotes)
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing (Via Quotes)
We must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd,... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms (Via Quotes)
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others (Via Quotes)
You used to be able to tell a person’s nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that (Via Quotes)
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself (Via Quotes)
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought (Via Quotes)
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression (Via Quotes)
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality (Via Quotes)
Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you’re taking something seriously (Via Quotes)
Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar (Via Quotes)
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion… (Via Quotes)