"Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept."

-- Matsuo Basho

#Holiday Quotes #Winter Quotes #Years Quotes

“Â“I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.Â””

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.”
“The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.”
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”
“We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.”
“Find out what your gift is and nurture it.”

Source : "Katy Perry doesn't want to 'hide' from divorce" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. June 22, 2012.
“Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.”
“Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.”

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