"Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality."

-- Helmut Kohl

#Shadow Quotes #Brutality Quotes

“Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Jul 26, 2012
“If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.”
“The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.”
“Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.”
“I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
“The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.”
“Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most”
“The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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