No grief reaches the dead.
SALLUSTSentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
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I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
GAUTAM ADANI -
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE -
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
KHALED HOSSEINI -
Being free means being free for the other, because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER -
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
HENRIK IBSEN -
Don’t stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI -
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy – a crow and a rabbit – to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
ELLIE GOULDING -
Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.
CHER -
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
SHARON SALZBERG -
Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.
BETTY JANE WYLIE -
In short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
VERNON HOWARD -
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I don’t recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT