"Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mindâ€“these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless."

-- Pascal Bruckner

#Nature Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Silence Quotes

“She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.”
“You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.”
“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.”
“If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love”
“No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.”
“Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.”
“When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.”

Source : James Hilton (2016). “LOST HORIZON - The Legend of Shangri-La: Adventure Classic”, p.155, e-artnow
“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.”

Source : Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27

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