"Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman."

-- Charles Dickens

#Love Quotes #Said Quotes #Blindness Quotes

“I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.”
“I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself.”
“The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.22, Granta Books
“Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?”
“You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of.”

Source : John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.13, Cambridge University Press
“People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Feb 01, 2013
“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc

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