"In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one."

-- Bill Harley

#Book Quotes #Library Quotes #Noses Quotes

“Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!”
“Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest.But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt broke my nights with sorrowingIt filled my heart with fearsAnd, when my soul was prone to sing,It filled my eyes with tears.But...now that it has gone its way,I miss the dear ole pain.And, sometimes, in the night I prayThat Love might come again.”

Source : FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Dec 30, 2011
“Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.”

Source : Ron Padgett (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.532, Coffee House Press
“In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.”
“Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels”
“Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.”
“It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.”
“My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.”

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