"Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise."

-- Keith Donohue

#Imagine Quotes

“It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.”
“You had to be tough in our neighborhood.”
“The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.”

Source : Margot Asquith (2014). “Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street”, p.147, Oxford University Press, USA
“... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.”
“Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.”
“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.”
“I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.”
“We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born childâ€”pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.29, Oxford University Press

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