Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamn lonely anymore (Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage)
Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew
Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew (Idries Shah, Observations)
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures (Simone Weil)
Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so
Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned)
Goddamnit, in your Love FeverI am suffering from Heart TumorYou must be adept …you Pretty CharmerI am falling for you…in this Indian Summer – Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance
Goddamnit, in your Love FeverI am suffering from Heart TumorYou must be adept …you Pretty CharmerI am falling for you…in this Indian Summer – Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance
The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself
The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself (Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan)
You don’t know a woman until you’ve met her in court
You don’t know a woman until you’ve met her in court. (Norman Mailer)
Always Sami. I was tethered to her somehow. To that scared little girl I’d found on the staircase nearly a year earlier; to the past, when teaching was simpler and I could care about everyday problems, when being relentless meant running two extra laps, not waiting for an MP to search the undercarriage of a bus for bombs before letting students approach it
Always Sami. I was tethered to her somehow. To that scared little girl I’d found on the staircase nearly a year earlier; to the past, when teaching was simpler and I could care about everyday problems, when being relentless meant running two extra laps, not waiting for an MP to search the undercarriage of a bus for bombs before letting students approach it (Tucker Elliot, The Day Before 9/11)
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, “Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether.” These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, “Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether.” These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion (Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar)
Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears
Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears. (Matshona Dhliwayo)