"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.”
“These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.”
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”

Source : Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.237, A&C Black
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
“The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.”
“When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.”
“The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.”

Source : Song: One For The Road, 2002
“A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of greater, senior slaves. Or learning every nuance of their owner's character, so that they can more completely and seamlessly offer themselves at the right time and in the right manner.”

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