"Love is the very essence of life."

“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.”

“I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.”

“When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

“I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.”

“Once our hearts are open, all existence appears naturally beautiful and harmonious.”

Source : Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

“She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”

“The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.112, Macmillan

“Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.”