Thomas Conklin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.
-- Thomas Conklin

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Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Thomas Conklin famous quotes

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