"There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul."

-- Baltasar Gracian

#Adversity Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Unique Quotes

“Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.”
“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.”

Source : Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”
“No matter how hard you're going, you can always go harder.”
“Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.”
“The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.”
“... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.”
“We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.”
“I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine.”

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