"The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear"

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Autumn Quotes #Scent Quotes #November Quotes

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”
“Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”
“It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.”
“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”
“Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it,”
“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
“Any team can have a bad century.”
“There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.”

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