Master Djwhal Khul Quotes & Sayings

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness regardless of what they were doing. But therefore they could never know real joy. Which is better? Who can say? Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing. Dressed in their aprons, their smiling faces like flowers, leaning to cook, absorbed in their little troubles and perplexities, they fall in love and marry. I think that's great. I wouldn't mind that kind of life. Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything. I feel only regret for the whole thing. — Banana Yoshimoto

Self-empowerment is our birthright. — Miss Dee

I don't want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing. — Reggie Lewis

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. — Ovid

On so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast. His mother, I know, went to his door — Henry James

If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario — Gioachino Rossini

Certain stories must remain mine, so that there is a me to remain. — Lauren Oliver