"I canâ€™t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that Iâ€™m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking."

-- Holly Black

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.”
“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. â€¦ That is why people are always searching for a meaning to lifeâ€¦ Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”

Source : "Awareness: Conversations with the Masters".
“Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...”
“Quality thoughts will turn their back on you if you don't treat them with respect.”
“I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.”
“I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.”
“If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?”
“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”

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