"Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Stars Quotes #Lying Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.”
“Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.”
“Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.”
“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”
“I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say â€” and it is occasionally true â€” that I need physics more than friends.”
“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”
“Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.”

Source : Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.
“Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.”

Source : Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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