"Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Animal Quotes #Practice Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”
“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.”
“Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2007). “A Meeting at Corvallis: A Novel of the Change”, p.728, Penguin
“Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.”
“Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.”

Source : Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.123, Penguin
“This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.”
“Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.”
“On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...”

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