“The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 214 of 313
“There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.”
“Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.”
“She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.”
“But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.”
“This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations.”
“Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.”
“The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.”
“The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.”
“Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.”
“Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.”
“But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!”
“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow”
“I Fall upon the thorns of life.”
“Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.”
“Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!”
“My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!”
“A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.”
“America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.”
“Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.”