"If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting."

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Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.141, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

#Giving Up Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Able Quotes

“I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.”

Source : New York Times, September 20, 1970.
“Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage
“Be wary of those who seek to steal your dream. Be even more wary of those who seek to tell you what your dream should be.”
“Do you think George Bush actually knows who Gordon Brown is? He probably just thinks Tony Blair's put on weight and had a mild stroke.”
“Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.”
“When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.”
“Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.”
“There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.”

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