"In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg."

-- Jules Renard

#Eggs Quotes #Space Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.”
“'Life is a journey, Frannie darling,' Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel." As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”
“My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.”
“Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.”

Source : Harriet Monroe (1938). “A poet's life: seventy years in a changing world”, Macmillan
“A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.”
“It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.”
“It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.”
“To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.”

Source : "Celebrating 100 years of Satyagraha". www.dnaindia.com. January 29, 2007.

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