"Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm."

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Source : A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.56, CUA Press

Antonin Sertillanges

#Dream Quotes #Art Quotes #Wings Quotes

“Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.”

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.314
“I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.”
“Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take.”
“There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.”
“I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.”
“All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of timeâ€”that's why we suffer.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.4, Shambhala Publications
“The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.”
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”

Source : "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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