"Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something."

-- Idries Shah

#Thinking Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Originality Quotes

“From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge. We can seek out those memorable moments that are frequently hidden by the pain and agony. We can find peace in extending ourselves to others, using our own experiences to provide hope and comfort. And we can always remember with great solemnity and gratitude Him who suffered most to make it all right for us. And by so doing we can be strengthened to bear our burdens in peace. And then, the 'works of God' might be manifest.”
“You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.”
“All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.”
“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.”
“The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.”
“Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.”
“I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.”
“Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.”

Source : "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

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