"I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world â€“ and a type of being â€“ that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, thereâ€™d be no stories. If there were no stories, thereâ€™d be no language. If there was no language thereâ€™d be no . . . What?"

-- Scarlett Thomas

#Reality Quotes #Life Is Like Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.”

Source : 1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.
“Has anybody seen my tambourine?”
“After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.”

Source : William Lilly (1822). “William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681”, p.44
“One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. Itâ€™s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poemsâ€”and to peopleâ€”without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be.”
“It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume
“Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.15, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of his nose and climbed up from there to tickle into his teardrop ducts, so in his moss green pupils, curious, insistent, accusing sparks of questions continued to light up and fade away like fireflies flitting about on summer nights.”
“Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.”

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