Laozi
Philosopher
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion."
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Baggage
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Joseph Fort Newton
Author
"Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way."
Stuart Wilde
Author, Speaker
"Things you believe are baggage in your life."
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"Out, you tallow-face! You baggage!"
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"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."
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"I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey."
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"The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow."
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"All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life."
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"All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact."
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"Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage."
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"...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette"
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