"If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?"

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Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

#Attitude Quotes #Trying Quotes #Why Not Quotes

“Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”
“I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.”
“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.”
“Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.”
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”

Source : The Awakening ch. 38 (1899)
“You are always a little bit wrong”
“Everything flows and nothing stays.”
“It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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