"May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Air Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Long Quotes

“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
“Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.”
“Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.”
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.”
“When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.”
“I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life,”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc
“The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy... The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.”
“The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.”

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