"Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Destiny Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Levels Quotes

“The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.”
“Memory - the very skin of life.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”
“I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people and putting them first and not necessarily putting myself under a microscope. It's unsettling but I'm trying to be the kind of person that can be alone, at peace with himself. Making most recent album, I felt braver putting stuff into songs than I do bringing them up in conversation. Which makes no logical sense. Lyrically, there was a lot less hiding behind suns and moons and stars.”
“Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.”
“I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.”
“I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Those who donâ€™t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.”
“The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.”

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