"Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset."

-- Victor Borge

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Upset Quotes

“Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.”
“The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.”
“Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.”
“Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.”
“We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for ...”
“Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.”
“The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.”
“Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.”

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