"It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library."

-- John D'Agata

#Fun Quotes #Book Quotes #Library Quotes

“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos”
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 17, 2016
“Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.”
“One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.”
“And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.”
“Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.”
“Jump and the net will appear.”

Source : Mick Ebeling (2017). “Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
“In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It converts the perceptions of our experiences, beliefs, and imagination into the coded language of waves that communicate with the world beyond our bodies. Perhaps this is what philosopher and poet John Mackenzie meant when he stated, "The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary."”

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