"Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round."

-- Edmund Waller

#Circles Quotes

“One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the worldâ€™s people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. Itâ€™s much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit.”
“All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.”
“But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.”
“I like being on the margins. You work better there.”

Source : "The Importance of Being Childish". The Times, December 02, 2006.
“It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.”
“I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!”
“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
“Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.”

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