"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."

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John Keats

#Eye Quotes #Bored Quotes #Pensive Quotes

“People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.”
“We need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering.”

Source : Jean-Yves Leloup (2009). “Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.”
“If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only”

Source : Louis Sachar (2010). “Holes”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing
“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 16, 2012
“I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.”
“Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]”
“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.”

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