"Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words..."

-- Yasunari Kawabata

#Jewels Quotes #Hands Quotes #Soul Quotes

“The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.”

Source : George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.”
“The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.”

Source : Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Moonlight Becomes You”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.”
“Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.”

Source : Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com
“I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.”
“One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.”

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