"Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Book Quotes #Home Quotes #World Quotes

“There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.”
“In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.”
“The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.”
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.55, New World Library
“Women's weapon, water-drops.”
“The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.”
“Without philosophy, action has no meaning.”

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