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“What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.”
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“Can you spare some change? is never a good pick up line.”
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“If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.”
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“Research can trap you into the past.”
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“The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.”
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“It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”
Source : Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.128, Routledge
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“a bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.”
Source : "The Story of Spin" by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, translated by Takeshi Oka, University of Chicago Press, (p. 217), 1997.
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“I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.”
