"Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I sâ€™pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ainâ€™t a boy any longer."

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Source : Robert Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and The Boy”

Robert Ruark

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“What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.”
“In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.”

Source : Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.15, Springer
“A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control may be achieved. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged.”
“Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.”
“So you didnâ€™t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .â€ â€œBecause experience is the only teacher,â€ Hey-Soos says. â€œEven if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids donâ€™t listen to their parents, or people donâ€™t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? Thereâ€™s only one thing thatâ€™s universal.â€ â€œWhatâ€™s that?â€ â€œThe truth.”

Source : Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.171, Manonmani Publishers
“People are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.”
“Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.”

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