"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."

-- Helen Keller

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Moving On Quotes

“[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)”
“A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.”

Source : Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style Deluxe”, p.49, Penguin
“I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.”
“Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.”
“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.”
“I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.”

Source : "Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.
“For the book unwritten is the book burned.”

Source : Stan Rice (1995). “Fear Itself: Poems”, Alfred A. Knopf
“By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.”

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