"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."

-- Tahir Shah

#Travel Quotes #Journey Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.”

Source : 'Man' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.”
“God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good--- and because it's from Him, even much better”

Source : Janette Oke (1999). “A Searching Heart”, p.233, Bethany House
“It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.”
“Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.”

Source : "Bringing Free Market Choices to Education" by John Katzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.
“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”

Source : Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”
“The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”

Source : Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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