"It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come."

-- Shams Tabrizi

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Way Quotes

“I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.”
“There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.”
“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.356, Simon and Schuster
“To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.”
“I have put gay dating on the map.”
“If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.”
“There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.”
“I can't be overwhelmingly happy. I'm never free for a moment day and night from the uncertainty in which we live these days, which excludes any carefree plans for tomorrow and casts a shadow over all the days to come.”

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