"Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest."

-- Paul Brunton

#Yield Quotes #Ego Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.”
“Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.”

Source : Francis Atterbury, Nitish K. Basu (1740). “A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.105
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”

Source : Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.123, Copper Canyon Press
“People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.”
“Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.”
“If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.”
“The only failure is not to try.”

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