"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Life Quotes #Horse Quotes #Moments Quotes

“You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is.”
“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run”
“The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”
“Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!”

Source : 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song
“The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
“Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable...”
“I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.”
“It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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