"I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable."

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Source : Yunus Emre (1989). “The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre”, Shambhala Publications

Yunus Emre

#Book Quotes #Four Quotes #Make Sense Quotes

“We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.”
“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.”
“There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.”

Source : de Cervantes, Miguel (2015). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.119, Aegitas
“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”

Source : The Straits Times, April 20, 1987.
“What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books
“You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.”
“Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners”
“I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!”

Source : "The next Bethenny". Interview with Sean Daly, nypost.com. September 11, 2012.

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