"One has not understood until one has forgotten it."

-- D.T. Suzuki

#Understanding Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Understood Quotes

“There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there....”

Source : Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing
“God is too big for just one religion.”
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”
“Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization.”

Source : William H. PRESCOTT (1873). “History of the Conquest of México”, p.173
“The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.”
“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
“... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.”

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