"Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life."

-- Albert Schweitzer

#Spiritual Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Sincerity Quotes

“Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.”
“I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.”

Source : "Sheryl Sandberg Joins Global Women Leaders in Tech to Demand Gender Equality" by Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.
“Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.”

Source : Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”
“Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!”
“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”
“...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

Source : Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement...”
“When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.”

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