"there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen."

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Source : Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”

Margaret Oliphant

#People Quotes #Experience Quotes

“People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.”
“A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.”
“Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”
“I always believed if you take care of your body it will take care of you”
“Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.”
“Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?”
“So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.”

Source : Stephen Mitchell (1994). “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn”, p.65, Grove Press
“Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.”

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