"What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains."

-- Sir John Davies

#Gambling Quotes #Reign Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“There ought to be a law against necessity.”
“Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.”
“Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.”
“There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.”
“The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.”
“My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.”

Source : "Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays".
“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”
“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.”

Source : Sharon Salzberg (2017). “Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation”, p.94, Hay House, Inc

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