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Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.
Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!
Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don't expect the ground beneath you to move forward!
There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!
Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!
Love with freedom is superior to both the freedom without love and the love without freedom!
You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.
You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.
It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.
She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
My sister is not interested in any political positions; not in Rajya Sabha or anything else.
When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.
I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.
But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
The few things I’d sacrificed, or put on hold, to be with my husband and baby were worth it.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.
It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.