"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs."

-- Sri Aurobindo

#Inspirational Quotes #Sri Lanka Quotes #People Quotes

“Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.”
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”

Source : Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”
“I think it rather pathetic that so many people are looking forward to heaven to prove that their doctrinal position was correct.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“Home is home wherever you grow up generally speaking. Unless you're one of those people who always wants to get out of a small town and do something bigger with your life, which I always did but I always wanted to come back, so home is home and its a great place for me to come back and escape the hustle and bustle of the life that I live.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.”

Source : James M. Cain (2011). “Double Indemnity”, p.53, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.”
“It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?”
“I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.”

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