"Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes."

-- Alexander Smith

#Archer Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.”
“An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.”
“Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.”
“A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there is something essential lacking. Chess problems are unimportant. The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful-"important" if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and "serious" expresses what I mean much better.”
“I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Jan 07, 2015
“Before all, you need to know who you are, what you believe in, and what you stand for. Be how you want to be received.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.”

Source : Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.149, Hachette UK

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