"In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself."

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Source : Rumer Godden (1961). “Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further”

Rumer Godden

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.”
“Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.”
“Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.”
“Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.”
“I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.”
“It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.”

Source : Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press
“Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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