Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Iris Murdoch
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path...
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Osho
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed...
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Osho
Your inner strength is your outer foundation
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Allan Rufus
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what...
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Melody Beattie
More Quotes By William Boyd
Maybe we should go by tube', he said. A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'. She remembered something a woman in Paris had told her once. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>A woman in her forties, much married, elegant, a little world-weary. There is nothing easier...
A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet...
Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)
Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?
