"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"

-- Charles de Lint

#Would Be Quotes #Dull Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“Netflix is something I watch.”
“People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.”
“In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.”

Source : "The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight: Waking up to personal and global transformation". Book by Thom Hartmann, 1998.
“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.”

Source : 1973 Rembrandt's Hat,'The Man in the Drawer'.
“Dogs should be called by names which are not very long, so that each may obey more quickly when he is called, but they should not have shorter names than those which are pronounced in two syllables...”
“We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.”
“For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.”
“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”

Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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