Occurence Quotes

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

“Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like that. But for some reason... The thought that someone other than you might kill me never occurred to me. (Makishima Shogo)”
― Urobuchi Gen, 監視官 常守朱 1 [Kanshikan Akane Tsunemori]

“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“When a man says he hears angels singing,
he hears angels singing.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“One must keep one's eyes and ears open, one must know how to match up the facts, see similarity where others see total difference, remember that certain events occur at various levels or, to put it another way, many incidents are aspects of the same, single occurrence. And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When an individual or a team commits to stretching the limits of an idea rather than questioning its dependability or workability, it can lead to amazing occurrences.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi