"Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman."

-- Scott Lynch

#Eye Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes

“[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.”
“A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.”
“In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen”
“Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.”
“Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.57, Basic Books
“The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.”
“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”

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