"When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see."

-- Douglas Harding

#Doubt Quotes #Looks Quotes #Way Quotes

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.”
“There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2012, Рипол Классик
“I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.”
“Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.”
“There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.”
“...he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. I wanted to hold his shoulders down and shout into his face.”
“Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.”

Source : André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Shame is the shadow of love.”

Source : Song: Shame, Album: Uh Huh Her, 2004

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