"The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets."

-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Dust Quotes #Smell Quotes #Air Quotes

“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
“I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.”
“The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.”
“My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.”
“I am the captain of my pain.”
“There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.”

Source : Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books
“Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press
“Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.”

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