"In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River."

-- Aurel Stein

#Night Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Years Quotes

“Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.”

Source : Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, Fawcett
“On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but hopefully things will come around again and bands will once again want to "communicate" "ideas" with their audience, and not just content themselves with providing attitude and atmosphere with clichÃ©s on top.”
“The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.”

Source : Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), January 10, 2005.
“Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep”

Source : John Dickinson (2009). “The Writings of John Dickinson”, p.402, Applewood Books
“This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
“After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.”

Source : "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. April 25, 2004.
“Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.”
“to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.”

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