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“I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.”
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“Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.”
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“Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.”
Source : Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
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“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
Source : Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
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“We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between fresh food and rotten food where most of human culture's most prized delicacies and culinary achievements exist.”
Source : "'Fermentation': When Food Goes Bad But Stays Good". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 13, 2012. 
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“Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.”
Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .”
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“Since I started CrossFit, I've read and heard about the critics talk about how unsafe it is, and my only response to that is any form of exercise can be unsafe if you don't have the proper coaching, education and guidance.”
Source : "I Drank the CrossFit Kool-Aid" by Bob Harper, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
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“Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it. Even when there is an egoic overlay, it is not too dense or heavy for you to sense the essence underneath it. You don't need to react to the egoic overlay. When you don't react to it you don't strengthen it.”
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“All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.”
