"How like they are to human things!"

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Flower Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.”
“......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.”

Source : Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.13, SUNY Press
“Stop me when I'm making too much sense.”
“Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.”

Source : The Brothers Grimm, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Alexander Afanasiev, J. Macgowan, Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, and many others “Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know”, Slavamax BVBA
“Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.”
“It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.”
“Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.”

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