"Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship."

-- Tahir Shah

#Travel Quotes #Hardship Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”
“There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.”
“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
“We are not always totally happy about how we are portrayed.”
“Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.”

Source : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.409
“My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.”
“I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.”
“Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.”

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