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The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
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The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.
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How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
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The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
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While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
