Aseneth Jurgenson Quotes

#1. What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Tom Stoppard

#2. I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

Avicii

#3. When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

Leonard Jacobson

#4. I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

Pete Seeger

#5. We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.

Tehya Sky

#6. Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?

Margaret Mahy

#7. You've always tried to pretend you don't need anyone, Tash, but you do. We all do. So just let me be there for you. -Sophie

Julia Llewellyn Smith

#8. The friends that have I do it wrong
Whenever I remake a song,
Should know what issue is at stake:
It is myself that I remake.

William Butler Yeats