"Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#People Quotes #Taste Quotes #Habit Quotes

“I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.”
“tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.”
“When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.”
“Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.”

Source : Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”
“The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.”
“You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.”

Source : Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”
“The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.”
“The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.”

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