"There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation."
Charles F. Glassman
"Throwing dirt at a diamond does not diminish its value."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language."
Padma Viswanathan
"In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. ' A House Like a Lotus."
Madeleine L'Engle
"When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning."
Anonymous
"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own."
Daniel Kahneman
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
G.K. Chesterton
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating."
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
"Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth."
John Quincy Adams
"It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere."
Idries Shah
"Trouble will come soon enough and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... The more amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away."
Artemus Ward
"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
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