"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."

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Source : Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

Zhuangzi

#Fall Quotes #Winter Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“All good government must begin at home.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.191
“I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.”

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“With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.”
“I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.”
“May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.”

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.137, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.23, World Wisdom, Inc
“Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when youâ€™re in the middle of it”
“All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles of consumption with money, the circulating medium with which we pay for them. We must in the first instance have bought this money itself by the sale of our produce.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say (1936). “Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce”, p.6, Lulu.com

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