“I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 54 of 303
“I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.”
“Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
“Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?”
“Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.”
“Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.”
“Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.”
“Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”
“Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.”
“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”
“We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.”
“It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.”
“Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.”
“We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.”
“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
“I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.”
“Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?”
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
“When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.”
“I can remember thinking, at the age of 3, that I invented the concept of lying. By a brilliant thought process, I figured that I could fib and avoid the repercussions for something I had done, because lying meant that it never happened. However, by the time I was 5, I came to hate lying and to think of it as the worst thing in the world. That's my earliest memory. Weird, but true!”