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"If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido."
"love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight"
"I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility."
"Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless."
"Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter."
"It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
"I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on."
"Fasting is the first principle of medicine."
"The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we'll raise the energy around us."
"It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling."
"Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back."
"When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it."
"Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'"
"Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal presence. I have dedicated my life and creative energy to capturing these transcendent moments in which a connection is made between the subject, the photographer, and the viewer."
"The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things."
"I support renewable energy."
"I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy."
"There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment"
"Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge"
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another."
