"Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasnâ€™t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each otherâ€¦"

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Knives Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Long Quotes

“Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision....”
“As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.”
“I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.”

Source : "Bartender Wisdom: Anthony Mackie Edition" by Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2012.
“I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.”
“Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.”

Source : "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.
“The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.”
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
“Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.”

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