"Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair."

-- Elias Canetti

#Philosophical Quotes #Despair Quotes #Matter Quotes

“People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their circumstances and conditioning. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act.”

Source : Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.61, Insight Meditation Center
“I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.”
“The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.”

Source : Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.17, Hachette UK
“When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.”
“Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.”
“The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the face of beauty, when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears; These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.”

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