Easiness Quotes (page 14)

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• anymore
• thing
• needing

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore. Haruki Murakami

• world
• believe
• good

The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world. Alice Munro

• fun
• technology
• world

Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stuff, especially stuff that makes you more free. Cory Doctorow

• mistake
• understanding
• empathy

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. Thomas Harris

• pumpkin pie
• pie
• thy

This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka! Gerard Way

• society
• country
• power

It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• she
• good
• beautiful

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Masteracts without doing anythingand teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't... Lao Tzu

• path
• world
• life

The things we see," Pistorius said softly, "are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way. But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice of following the crowd. Sinclair, the majority's path is an easy one, ours is difficult. Herman Hesse

• reading
• writing
• hard

Hard writing makes easy reading" - Crossing to safety. Wallace Stegner

• regret
• play
• playfulness

I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that. Johnny Cash

• world
• owning
• ground

It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's. Jodi Picoult

• matter
• things that matter
• thing

There's never an easy route to the things that matter. Charles de Lint

• lifetime
• critic
• break

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime. Bruce Lee

• good
• feeling
• mistake

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. Haruki Murakami

• believe
• believed
• believability

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe. Laurell K. Hamilton