"Pain is certain, suffering is optional."

-- Gautama Buddha

#Pain Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Certain Quotes

“We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.”
“The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”
“The gap between compassion and surrender is loveâ€™s darkest, deepest region.”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.140, Faber & Faber
“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
“I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.”
“Where the differences came in was the patina of ideology which the news media laid over everything. There's certainly a bias, to some degree, in the way the media portrays the military. I'm not saying that's entirely wrong - the Fourth Estate is there to hold generals and colonels accountable for their actions and decisions - but having reporters on the scene, reporting in real time certainly complicates things for the military mission.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'll be ready for my first kiss! When it happens, it'll happen, but I don't know. It doesn't look like that will be anytime soon.”

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