"Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right."

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Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

Flora Thompson

#Thinking Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Philosopher Quotes

“I do not ever want to be a huge star.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.”
“[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.”
“If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.”
“You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.”
“There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.”
“Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea â€” whether itâ€™s about politics or sports â€” what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we canâ€™t stand the idea of its loss. What are we left with then? An ideology â€” rigid and unyielding.”

Source : "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.
“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.”

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