Multari Painting Quotes & Sayings

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. — Swami Vivekananda

The antithetical or perhaps mirror image to sadness is the experience, similarly unique to one's late years, of a swift, mysterious wave of happiness, also causeless, but of much shorter duration. I cannot remember a time, before my sixties, when the consciousness of happiness would sweep over me and, like a shower of cold water when one is desperately overheated, offer me a passing sensation very close to glee.
Both sadness and fleeting happiness relate, I think, to mortality, to the consciousness of being old and of nearing the end of life ... these sensations ... surge up from the unconscious, to be a gift of long life or fortunate old age. Both sadness and happiness, but sadness more, are related to the fact that nothing of all this will endure for long. [p. 179] — Carolyn G. Heilbrun

It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun. — Anne Carson

And I must remind myself that assassins should take no pleasure in their finery and frippery. — Robin LaFevers

Saying you don't need a librarian because you have the internet is like saying you don't need a math teacher because you have a calculator. — Unknown

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god. — Jamie Foxx