"Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Long Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.”
“Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.”
“And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'”
“Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.”
“Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.”
“Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.”

Source : Myla Goldberg (2002). “Bee Season: A Novel”, p.1087, Anchor
“I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.”

Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.96, Hachette UK
“I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.”

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