"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."

-- Peter Ustinov

#Life Quotes #Education Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.34, Quirk Books
“A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.”

Source : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.91, Bantam
“If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.”
“Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, â€œI should make that call", but I put it off. Because thereâ€™s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so itâ€™s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. Itâ€™s not like I sit here philosophizing, because Iâ€™ve no talent for that. Itâ€™s just this thing about silence thatâ€™s so wonderful.”
“The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.”
“The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.”
“Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.”
“On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.”

Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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