"Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back."

-- Xiaolu Guo

#Regret Quotes #Past Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.”
“What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?”
“I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's because we haven't been able to understand it yet.”
“Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.”
“This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal. "Perhaps it is a reflection of the night sky," he suggested, "skimmed from a pond?" She supposed that he was being poetic. erotic, even. In return, as unerotically as possible- more like complaining of a stain that wouldn't come out-she said, "Yes, my lord. I went for a dip, and the reflection clung.”
“...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.”
“In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.”
“Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.”

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