"The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see aheadâ€¦"

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Spiritual Quotes #Winter Quotes #Library Quotes

“When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.”
“So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.”

Source : John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way...”
“In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.”
“You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.”
“However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.”
“What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.”
“I grew up in an underprivileged home.”

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