"Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Fading Quotes #Belief Quotes #Hamper Quotes

“We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.”
“Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.”
“It all went a bit grape-shaped.”
“It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.”
“Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.”
“The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)”

Source : "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist". Book by Stephen Batchelor, 2010.
“And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.”

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