"At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets."

-- Denis Diderot

#Plato Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Age Quotes

“I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.”
“A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.”
“Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.”
“When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.”
“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It â€œconsents,â€ so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”
“No adultery is bloodless.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The City and the House: A Novel”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.”

Source : "Are you heeding Ed Miliband's call to fly the Saltire across the UK?" by James Walsh, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2014.

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