"A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Short Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Order Quotes

“The greatest hazard of all, losing oneâ€™s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
“When you're a music director, you have people constantly sending you music and trying to get - I mean, I'm sure you have the exact same thing when you do a magazine - that you have people constantly wanting to get your attention. And I think I learnt a lot from being on that end of things, when I was trying to book the tour, the first tour we did.”
“Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.”
“The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.”

Source : Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.90, Princeton University Press
“The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.”
“[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.”
“Experience is the extract of suffering.”
“When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.”

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