Quotes
Authors
Rohinton Mistry

"What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time."

Source : FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Jan 13, 2013

Rohinton Mistry

#Life Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.”
“OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 â€“ 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.”
“It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.”
“Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do.”
“Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.”
“I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.”
“Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.”
“Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.”

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