Karuan St Quotes & Sayings

I am the imagination of myself.
I am the one who watches.
Not to be confused with the one who knocks. — Dana Gore

Lessons are not given, they are taken. — Cesare Pavese

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really. — Mariel Hemingway

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. — Plato

Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ... — John Geddes

It is possible to learn the will of nature from the things in which we do not differ from each other. For example, when someone else's little slave boy breaks his cup we are ready to say, "It's one of those things that just happen." Certainly, then, when your own cup is broken you should be just the way you were when the other person's was broken. Transfer the same idea to larger matters. Someone else's child is dead, or his wife. There is no one would not say, "It's the lot of a human being." But when one's own dies, immediately it is, "Alas! Poor me!" But we should have remembered how we feel when we hear of the same thing about others. — Epictetus

Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it. — Arthur Wimperis