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Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

I have patient to wait for what I desire.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,A luminary clock against the skyProclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.I have been one acquainted with the night.

Live your life without ever having to ask, 'What if?

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.

...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

The is a way to attract and there's another way to honour to keep. Learn both

The value of the student’s question is supreme. The best initial response to a question is not to answer it, per se, but to validate it, protect it, support it, and make aspace for it. Like a blossom just emerging, a question is vulnerable and delicate. Adirect answer can extinguish a question if you’re not careful. But if you nourish theblossom, it will grow and give fruit in the form of insight as well as more questions.In short, a question needs to be nurtured more than answered. It should be givencenter stage, admired, relished, embraced, and sustained.

Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half seriously, half in fun, that he had always had the knack of sensing a Sunday from his bed, without even having to open his eyes.

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

There are million countries which we will visit together.

Trust yourself more than you trust the words of others.

She led him to the top of the stairs, where light came straight from the sky because the second-story windows of that house had been placed in the pitched ceiling and not the walls. There were two rooms and she took him into one of them, hoping he wouldn’t mind the fact that she was not prepared; that though she could remember desire, she had forgotten how it worked; the clutch and helplessness that resided in the hands; how blindness was altered so that what leapt to the eye were places to lie down, and all else—doorknobs, straps, hooks, the sadness that crouched in corners, and the passing of time—was interference.

Darkness is a strange thing — it is both infinite and confining; it holds you tight in its grasp, but it holds you suspended in a void. Silence operates in a similar way. Slowly the two combine to become a threat.("Come Into My Parlour")

Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population

The Best Part Of Missing You Is, "I Recall Every Single Moment Spent With You."Bt The Worst Part Is,"I Miss You So Badly.

Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

Every perfect gift comes from the great God.

If you want to live an exceptional life, you must move beyond probability into the realm of possibility

Live to read, read to learn.

I’m a lot like you,and you’re a lot like me.It’s sad to say,and it’s sad to see.

Life: You either play the hand you're dealt, or fold.....I choose to play.~Rick Ferreira

Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there

One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn’t the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light.

I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you'll die.

When my desiregrows too fierceI wear my bed clothesinside out,dark as the night’s rough husk.

If you want to be mine;be of the divine,be of yourself.

In order for us to begin something we have to start.

As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.

The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can't control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.

Those who think they know it ALL don't know what they are missing!

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

The barber's assistant asks if I am a Swede. An American? Not that either. A Russian? Well, then, what are you? I love to answer such nationalistically tinted questions with a steely silence, and to leave people who ask me about my patriotic feelings in the dark. Or I tell lies and say that I'm Danish. Some kinds of frankness are only hurtful and boring.

College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.

I dreamt of land but that was so long ago.I don't even know if he still exists.

A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self–indulgence and intellectual masturbation.

Love has glints of light that wake up our heart to feel the beauty of life.

I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

We have everything within us for our greatness and for our destruction. It comes back to what we think about.

The temperature of my blood dropped several degrees, and I took a step back. My heart quickened. "Storm?" I prompted, looking at the boxes on the dock labeled "non-perishable.

Battles are won in the Prayer Room!

The darkness of sin is a cords of deceit.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

That’s my dream. It’s always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it’s just as scary as the last.(…)It’s so real, I feel as if I’ve already died hundreds of times.

Zen movement is a meditative practice.

The light within you is divine.

You get what you expect in life.Expect great things in life.Live your best life.

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!