"This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape."

-- Louis L'Amour

#Girl Quotes #Wise Quotes #Fall Quotes

“What I do is me, for that I came.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.55, SkyLight Paths Publishing
“In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.”

Source : Victor Pelevin (2002). “Homo Zapiens”, p.12, Penguin
“And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?”
“But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.”
“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”
“Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.”
“But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.”
“An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.”

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