Christophines Quotes & Sayings

So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives delight - if you can look at it without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear, and therefore tremendous joy. It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. Watch it in yourself. The very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same, as it was yesterday. You struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense but the same inward quality of the mind, and you are hurt and disappointed because it is denied to you. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

He couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here. — Philip Roth

Many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags. — Rita Mae Brown

Zealand 1893 Australia — Richard Dawkins

All hate does is breed more hate. — Robert McCammon

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. — Wallace D. Wattles

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude. — Angus Young