"And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by."

-- Michael Ondaatje

#Book Quotes #Serenity Quotes #Choices Quotes

“A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.”
“After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.”
“Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.”
“For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.”

Source : Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.”
“It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.”
“Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!”
“In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in New York, you'll find something similar to it in Paris or Copenhagen or Chicago. But there is no place like New Orleans. So it's a must-see city because there's no explaining it, no describing it. You can't compare it to anything. So, far and away New Orleans.”

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