"Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed."

-- Pico Iyer

#Travel Quotes #Wordsworth Quotes #Mood Quotes

“The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.”

Source : Lars Leksell (1971). “Stereotaxis and Radiosurgery: An Operative System”
“Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.”
“I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that.”
“Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.”
“The child is the father of man.”
“Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.”
“Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.”
“When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.”

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