Famous Tibetan Buddhist Quotes & Sayings

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. — Frank Auerbach

She had to do that
she had to become a widow, for life, before she was even married. That's why I never got married. I'm thirty-eight years old. I can read and write very well
my mother made sure I was educated
and I do the bookwork for all the shops and businesses in the slum. I do the taxes for every man who pays them. I make a good living here, and I have respect. I shouldn't been married fifteen or even twenty years ago. But she was a widow, all her life, for me. And I couldn't do it. I just couldn't allow myself to get married. I kept hoping I would see him, the sailor with the best moustache. My mother had one very old, faded photograph of the two of them, looking very serious and stern. That's why I lived in this area. I always hoped I would see him. And I never married. And she died last week, Lin. My mother died last week. — Gregory David Roberts

Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading. — Patrick DeWitt

Aim at the ground, you'll never miss. — Kristine Thomas

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. — John Lyly

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you. — Nigel Slater

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.
ROBIN SHARMA The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Kindle Location 642) — Robin S. Sharma