"Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other Âpeople. Nothing that happens to a writer â€“ however happy, however tragic â€“ is ever wasted."

-- P. D. James

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Study Quotes

“We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.”
“When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.”
“I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.”

Source : "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.
“Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.”
“The sky is the sky wherever you go.”
“Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.”
“You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.”
“The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?”

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