"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Mind Quotes #Poetic Quotes #Purity Quotes

“[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. (140)”
“My fatherland has always the first claim on me.”
“I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.”
“There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.”
“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”
“Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.”

Source : David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.21, Basic Books
“What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.”
“Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.51

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