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Sunday Quotes: Fighting Your Demons

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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Lao Tzu

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

 Brom, The Child Thief

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what’s really there.

Tom Morello

A hug a day keeps the demons at bay.

Proverb

I don’t know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Tom Hanks

We all have inner demons to fight. We call these demons ‘fear’, and ‘hatred’, and ‘anger’. If you don’t conquer them, then a life of a hundred years… is a tragedy. If you do, a life of a single day can be a triumph.

Yip Man

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Sunday Quotes – Love

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

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Sunday Quotes – The Universe

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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams
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NHBPM – Sunday Quotes – Be Present

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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

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Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

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