"If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?"

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Source : Jennifer McMahon (2014). “The Winter People: A Novel”, p.22, Anchor

Jennifer McMahon

#Snow Quotes #Water Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.”
“I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.”

Source : Alaa Al Aswany (2009). “The Yacoubian Building: A Novel”, p.20, Harper Collins
“When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.”
“This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.”
“The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.”
“I have a lot of books I want to write.”
“Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.”
“Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness.”

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