"When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories"

-- Orhan Pamuk

#Fall Quotes #Light Quotes #Years Quotes

“He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”

Source : Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"
“Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.”
“Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”
“I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we donâ€™t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.362, Macmillan
“A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.”
“I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.”

Source : "Celine Buckens’ Horse Sense". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.
“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.”
“There is a sun within every person.”

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