Jedvardas Quotes & Sayings

How much suffering and fear, and
How many harmful things are in existence?
If all arises from clinging to the "I",
What should I do with this great demon? — Shantideva

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully. — Haruki Murakami

It sounds like a horse,' Alice thought to herself. And an extremely small voice, close to her ear, said, 'You might make a joke on that - something about "horse" and "hoarse," you know. — Lewis Carroll

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others. — Sundar Pichai

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same. — Josephine Tey

Upon learning of the young man's interest in a physics book, Lindemann, a number theorist, abruptly ended the interview, saying, In that case you are completely lost to mathematics. — Leonard Mlodinow

let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart of the poor slave - learn his secret thoughts - thoughts he dare not utter in the hearing of the white man; — Solomon Northup

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless. — Brent Weeks

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives. — Elizabeth Ashley

The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows. — Tim Lebbon

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. — Anne Rice

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world. — Charles Spurgeon