"Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge."

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Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes #Willing Quotes

“You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.”
“There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
“Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.”
“The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.”
“I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.”
“There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.”
“Without the bitter the sweet aint as sweet”
“Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.”

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