"Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes."

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Source : Kelly Link (2001). “Stranger Things Happen: Stories”, p.143, Small Beer Press

Kelly Link

#Life Quotes #Goodbye Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.”
“Wisdom is the ability to read between the lines, listen out for messages that the universe gives us. I've been taught that that is true knowledge and that is completely different to the way we are programmed to learn. We are trained to be able to put the right answer with the right question. We don't really have to know the answer.”
“Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.”
“I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.”
“Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.”
“Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.”
“Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Jan 04, 2015
“[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.”

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