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• The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

  Rajneesh

  Running, Mind, Way

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• They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Girl, Shy, Tables

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• I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

  Johnny Depp

  Beer, Men, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Thinking, Trying

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Sitting Still, Space

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.

  James Packer

  Beach, Want, Billionaire

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• You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "A Democracy of Despots" by Donald Murray, (p. 8), 1995.

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• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Winning, Thrones, Thousand

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.52, Bantam

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• I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

  Steve Hamilton

  Champion, Pieces, Mouths

  Steve Hamilton (2010). “The Lock Artist: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Science, Simple

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• The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Body, Temples

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.91, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Music, Dream

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

  Ajahn Chah

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Art, Breathing, Simplicity

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• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Kindness, Men, Garden

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• Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

  Tom Bunk

  Running, Beats, Walking

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• You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

  George Carlin

  Feelings, Chocolate, Bars

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

  Kamala Harris

  Long, Sitting Down, Difficult Times

  "Kamala Harris mixing idealism, political savvy" by Bob Egelko, www.sfgate.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Long, Judging

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• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  Red Smith

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• For here
  Am I sitting in a tin can,
  Far above the world.
  Planet Earth is blue,
  And there's nothing I can do.

  David Bowie

  Blue, Tin Cans, World

  "Song: 'Space Oddity'". 1969.

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  No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

  Don Rickles

  Beach, World, Matter

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Make Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Waiting

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Wall, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Oct 15, 2013

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